Shawn Johnson Quotes About Gymnastics

Quotes about: Gymnastics

• As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

  Shawn Johnson

  Perseverance, Mistake, Gymnastics

  Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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

  Shawn Johnson

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Gymnastics

• 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.

  Shawn Johnson

  Motivational, Sports, Gymnastics

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

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Sacrifice

  "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

• Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

  Shawn Johnson

  Strong, Gymnastics, Broke

  "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

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

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Important, Doe

• Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

  Shawn Johnson

  Heart, Mean, Gymnastics

• If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Gymnastics, Nerves

• After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

  Shawn Johnson

  Running, Gymnastics, Years

• A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Impossible, Comeback

• 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.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Two, Training

  "Shawn Johnson training for 2012". Interview with Amy Van Deusen, www.espn.com. May 10, 2011.

• 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

  Gymnastics, Class, Parent

• 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

  Retirement, Giving Up, Gymnastics

• 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.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Heartbreaking, Might

• Gymnastics is so complex.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Complexes

• When it comes to gymnastics, you can be 30 points ahead going into that competition, but on that day, it's all about luck. It's about who has a good day, who stays healthy, it's how happy the judges are that day, there are so many different factors.

  Shawn Johnson

  Good Day, Gymnastics, Judging

  "Shawn Johnson gets more nervous watching Olympic Trials than she did competing". Interview with Maggie Hendricks, ftw.usatoday.com. July 27, 2016.

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

  Shawn Johnson

  Zero, Gymnastics, Basics

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

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Beijing, Difficulty

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

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, People, Olympics

• In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Blessing, Tears

• 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

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Goal

• I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, People

• Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

  Shawn Johnson

  Gymnastics, Movement, Timing

• 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.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Giving Up, Gymnastics

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