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" 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
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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.' "
Shawn Johnson
Body
Thinking
Myself
" 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 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. "
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Training
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" 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
" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "
Shawn Johnson
Responsibility
Life
Me
" 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
" 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
" It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces. "
Shawn Johnson
About
Putting
Through
" A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. "
Shawn Johnson
Impossible
Gymnastics
Almost
" I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now. "
Shawn Johnson
Time
Running
Now
" I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have. "
Shawn Johnson
Should
Heal
Knee
" 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 always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself. "
Shawn Johnson
Always
Look
Myself
" 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
" 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
" Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. "
Shawn Johnson
Me
Everything
Little
" 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
" 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
" 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 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 pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. "
Shawn Johnson
Diet
Attention
Pay Attention
" 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
Like
Lifestyle
" Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges. "
Shawn Johnson
Challenges
Need
Me
" 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
" 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 started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. "
Shawn Johnson
Back
Zero
Basics
" 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
" 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. "
Shawn Johnson
Race
Media
Literature
" My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training. "
Shawn Johnson
Back
I Am
I Am Back