153 Quotes by Shawn Johnson

We were able to kind of put a lid on what they wanted to do.

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.

Experience just took over. You can tell they're a very seasoned team. They knew what to do at the right time. We're still trying to learn how to play with each other, but I like the progress right before the playoffs.

We've been preaching (good passing) since the beginning, and today was our best performance this season.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

Even the whole second half, we dug ourselves out of a 13-point lead (at the half), strictly by playing defense.

The short-term folks that are worried about earnings are providing us long-term investors some great buying opportunities,

The storm took place on the 29th and to say as of today, that's a long time to say I'm going to meet your needs, immediate needs. My immediate needs should have been taken care of a long time ago, so that's a problem for me.

The test, as far as the intangibles go, was that we wanted to make sure that we came out with a lot of energy, and defensively we did that.