I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.
Shawn JohnsonIt's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.
Shawn JohnsonI told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
Shawn JohnsonPeople only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
Shawn JohnsonSomething 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