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" Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. "
Shawn Johnson
Me
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Little
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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 have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom. "
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" I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.' "
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" I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have. "
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" I need to learn how to face challenges. "
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" People put too much emphasis on looks. "
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" I know how much more I need to do to be where I want. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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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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" I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that. "
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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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Home
Me
" Gymnastics is so complex. "
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Complex
" 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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Down
Want
Days
" I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. "
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Zero
Basics
" The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well! "
Shawn Johnson
Amazing
Eat
Right
" I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September. "
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Gym
Surgery
Back
" Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. "
Shawn Johnson
Opportunities
Up
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" It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces. "
Shawn Johnson
About
Putting
Through
" My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training. "
Shawn Johnson
Back
I Am
I Am Back
" 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
" 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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Body
Thinking
Myself
" 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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Training
Strange
Myself
" Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. "
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Life
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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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Small
Think
" I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. "
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Believe
Olympic
" Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. "
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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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Feel
Two
Pain
" Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. "
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