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I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

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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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People put too much emphasis on looks.
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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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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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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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Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
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Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
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I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.
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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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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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I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.
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I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
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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.
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