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" 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! "

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" 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

" I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old. "

" I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. "

" Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. "

" I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life. "

" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "

Shawn Johnson

Responsibility

Life

" 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. "

" I know how much more I need to do to be where I want. "

Shawn Johnson

Know

Where

" 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

Home

" With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. "

" 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

Lifestyle

" Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. "

" My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal. "

Shawn Johnson

Calm

Normal

" A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. "

" I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off. "

" I need to learn how to face challenges. "

" People put too much emphasis on looks. "

" 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! "

" I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep! "

" After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. "

" I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad. "

" I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom. "

Shawn Johnson

Mom

Everywhere

" 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. "

" It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces. "

" The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well! "

" 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. "

" I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have. "

" I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "