#gymnast

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

#day #elite #every #focused #going

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. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#ask #came #funny #gymnast #happened

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

— Shawn Johnson

#approach #based #beijing #could #difficulty

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

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics #intimidating #olympics #only #people

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

#bundle #class #energy #fell #gymnastics

It's because you absolutely love the sport. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship #inspirational

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#also #because #consumed #date #exactly

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#amazing #baseball #baseball players #basketball #board

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

#anymore #been #being #compete #easier

And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#ages #because #future #gymnastics #i