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People put too much emphasis on looks.

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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
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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 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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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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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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Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
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As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
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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.
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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 still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.
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I don't want to be all power and muscle.
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After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
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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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Gymnastics is so complex.
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
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I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
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Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.
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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 love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.
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