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Shawn Johnson Biography

Shawn Machel Johnson East (born January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist. Johnson is also a five-time Pan American Games gold medalist, winning the team titles in 2007 and 2011, as well as titles in the all-around, uneven bars, and balance beam in 2007.

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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Anxiety, Excitement, Joy, Nerves, Reality

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

Attempt, Sacrifice, Society, Think, Thinking, Want

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

Athlete, Body, Doubt, Weakness

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.

Girl, Strange, Training, Trials, Weird

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

Amount, Approach, Beijing, Difficulty, Gymnastics

I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.

People, Pressure, Saying, Under Pressure

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Attention, Gymnast, Pay

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

Comeback, Gymnastics, Impossible

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Give, Giving Up, Gymnastics, Retirement, Retiring, Tough

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.

Biggest, Dream, Goal, Goals, Team

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. '

Athlete, Bad, Hurt, Knee, Thinking

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

Ankles, Healthy, Lifestyle, Nothing, Rolling

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

Call, Exchanges, Gymnastics, Sacrifice, Sacrifices

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

Age, Birthday, Enough, Perfect

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

Muscle, Muscles, Power, Want

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

Book, Come, Matter, Media, Race, Universal

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

Critique, Hard, Hard Work, Performances, Work

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

Gymnastics, People, Olympics, Extreme, See, Intimidating

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.

Gotten, Gymnastics, Lose, Motivational, Sports, Work

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. And those wouldn't have happened had I not accepted my injury as a way to try something new.

Giving Up, Gymnastics, Happens, Injury, Mom, Tough

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