Shawn Johnson Olympics Quotations

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

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

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.