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

- Shawn Johnson

Responsibility, Me, Taught, Gymnastics

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

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Impossible, Itself, Almost, Gymnastics

Gymnastics is so complex.

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Complex, Gymnastics

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

- Shawn Johnson

Timing, Precision, Which, Gymnastics

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

London, Still, Olympic, Biggest Dream

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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Other, Been, Olympic, Trials

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.

- Shawn Johnson

I Am, Normal, Knee, I Am Back

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

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Strong, Voice, Stay Strong, Stand Up

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

Compete, Been, Heartbreaking, Retire

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

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Focus, One Day, Sets, Excitement

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

Practice, Back, Jumps, Squat

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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Result, Knee, Extent, Heal

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

Pain, Classics, Still, Pan

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

Mind, Week, Great Way, Pilates

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!

- Shawn Johnson

Think, Want, I Think, Goals

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.

- Shawn Johnson

Every Day, Within, Been, Supporters

I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.

- Shawn Johnson

Love, Chicken, Obsessed, Sushi

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.'

- Shawn Johnson

Mind, Constant, Beam, OK

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.

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Some, Had, Elite, Blessing

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

Doing, Hours, Six, Six Days

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

- Shawn Johnson

Gold, Get, Olympics, Train

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

Practice, Other, Private, Assume

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

Image, Medals, Olympic, Olympic Games

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

- Shawn Johnson

Week, Saturday, Hours, Sundays

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

- Shawn Johnson

Finally, Olympics, Whole, Gold Medal

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, Muslim, Which, Presented

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.

- Shawn Johnson

Repair, February, Quickly, Surgery

People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

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See, Only, TV, Intimidating

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

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Think, Always, Motivating, Helps

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

Small, Think, Always, Helps

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