153 Quotes by Shawn Johnson

Embrace your crazy.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

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 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.

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.

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.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.