Top 64 Quotes by Shawn Johnson

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

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

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

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

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.

People put too much emphasis on looks.

I always feel like I'm the young one, I'm the small one.

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.

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.

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.'