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" After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. "
Shawn Johnson
Run
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Career
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" I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. "
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Athlete
Believe
Olympic
" It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself. "
Shawn Johnson
Training
Strange
Myself
" Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. "
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Strong
Stand
Stand Up
" I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind. "
Shawn Johnson
Great
Three
Week
" I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. "
Shawn Johnson
Back
Zero
Basics
" I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.' "
Shawn Johnson
Ready
Back
Doubt
" I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before. "
Shawn Johnson
Will
Say
Learning
" I don't feel like a star; I never have. I don't feel like a star; I never have. I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. "
Shawn Johnson
Feel
Small
Think
" I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train! "
Shawn Johnson
You
Train
Want
" To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.' "
Shawn Johnson
Body
Thinking
Myself
" I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life. "
Shawn Johnson
Life
Never
Teammate
" Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. "
Shawn Johnson
Gold
Your
You
" I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place. "
Shawn Johnson
I Can
Find
Place
" I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life. "
Shawn Johnson
Kind
Life
College
" I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. "
Shawn Johnson
Love
Chicken
Like
" My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training. "
Shawn Johnson
Back
I Am
I Am Back
" Staying healthy and consistent is paramount. "
Shawn Johnson
Consistent
Paramount
Staying
" When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps. "
Shawn Johnson
Go
Home
Me
" In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued. "
Shawn Johnson
Blessing
Road
Return
" A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. "
Shawn Johnson
Impossible
Gymnastics
Almost
" I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. "
Shawn Johnson
Feel
Two
Pain
" Gymnastics is so complex. "
Shawn Johnson
Gymnastics
Complex
" People put too much emphasis on looks. "
Shawn Johnson
Too Much
Looks
Much
" I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one. "
Shawn Johnson
Young
Small
Feel
" We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. "
Shawn Johnson
You
Age
Perfect
" I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off. "
Shawn Johnson
Off
Saturday
Work
" I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well. "
Shawn Johnson
Day
Week
Two
" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "
Shawn Johnson
Responsibility
Life
Me
" My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski. "
Shawn Johnson
Skiing
Training
Said
" I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old. "
Shawn Johnson
Years
Started
Old