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" 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
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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. "
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" I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. "
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" Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. "
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" I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life. "
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" I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep! "
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" I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. "
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" My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training. "
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" I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad. "
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" 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. "
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" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. "
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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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" After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. "
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" 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. "
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