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. Shawn Johnson Read Quote
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. Shawn Johnson Read Quote
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! Shawn Johnson Read Quote
Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn’t start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going. Shawn Johnson Read Quote
When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn’t know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it. Shawn Johnson Read Quote
When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps. Shawn Johnson Read Quote
