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" I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that. "
Shawn Johnson
Nothing
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Lifestyle
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" 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
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Chicken
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" 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'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
" I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. "
Shawn Johnson
Athlete
Believe
Olympic
" I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008. "
Shawn Johnson
Two
Back
Day
" I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London. "
Shawn Johnson
Team
Goals
Expectations
" Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going. "
Shawn Johnson
Training
Start
Back
" 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
" My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal. "
Shawn Johnson
Calm
Me
Normal
" Gymnastics is so complex. "
Shawn Johnson
Gymnastics
Complex
" Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. "
Shawn Johnson
Gold
Your
You
" After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. "
Shawn Johnson
Run
Years
Career
" It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. "
Shawn Johnson
Say
Retire
Compete
" I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad. "
Shawn Johnson
Medals
Winning
Image
" 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
" When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it. "
Shawn Johnson
Me
Parents
Know
" I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. "
Shawn Johnson
Back
Zero
Basics
" I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. "
Shawn Johnson
They Say
Done
Good
" I know how much more I need to do to be where I want. "
Shawn Johnson
Know
Where
More
" Staying healthy and consistent is paramount. "
Shawn Johnson
Consistent
Paramount
Staying
" 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
" 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
" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "
Shawn Johnson
Responsibility
Life
Me
" To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world. "
Shawn Johnson
Finish
Best
World
" Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. "
Shawn Johnson
Me
Everything
Little
" Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges. "
Shawn Johnson
Challenges
Need
Me
" A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym! "
Shawn Johnson
People
Gym
Coaching
" People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. "
Shawn Johnson
Only
TV
Extreme
" I need to learn how to face challenges. "
Shawn Johnson
Challenges
Need
Learn
" I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom. "
Shawn Johnson
Mom
Go
Everywhere