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There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

Shawn Johnson

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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
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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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My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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 know how much more I need to do to be where I want.
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Gymnastics is so complex.
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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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It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.
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Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
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I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
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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 always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.
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I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.
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That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
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