Quote

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

Shawn Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Shawn Johnson
Age: 32
Born: 1992
Born: January 19
Artistic Gymnast
Athlete
Gymnast
Des Moines
Iowa
Shawn Machel Johnson East
Shawn Johnson
Shawn Machel Johnson
Gymnastics
Intimidating
Olympics
Extreme
Extremes
People

More quotes by Shawn Johnson

Image
It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.
Shawn Johnson
Image
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
Shawn Johnson
Image
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
Image
I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.
Shawn Johnson
Image
Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so.
Shawn Johnson
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.
Shawn Johnson
Image
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
Image
Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.
Shawn Johnson
Image
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.
Shawn Johnson
Image
I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
Shawn Johnson
Image
I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
Shawn Johnson
Image
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
Image
I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible.
Shawn Johnson
Image
I fell in love with running, and I finally have time to do it now.
Shawn Johnson
Image
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
Shawn Johnson
Image
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
Image
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.
Shawn Johnson