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" My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal. "
Shawn Johnson
Calm
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" 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. "
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" I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport. "
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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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" People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. "
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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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" Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. "
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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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" It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more. "
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" 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. "
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" Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. "
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