"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."
― Shawn Johnson
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More From Shawn Johnson
- "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."
- "I have a chaperone everywhere I go – my mom."
- "When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps."
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- "I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there’s always the town gossip – ‘Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?’ So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut."― Garrett Hedlund
- "Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."― Christopher Lasch
- "Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it’s a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn’t pave the world – it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water."― Thomas Friedman