#ld

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

— Shawn Johnson

#approach #based #beijing #could #difficulty

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

— Shawn Johnson

#get #gold #life #olympics #train

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#feeling #finally #finish #getting #gold

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. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#back #coach #come #decisions #did

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#catch #golden #good #great #great art

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.' ↗

— Tim Johnson

#best #cannot #care #country #described

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#cheaper #childcare #children #choose #entirely

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. ↗

— Tim Vine

#brother #chinese #colin #dad #either

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#i #know #lot #now #probably

I was a full foot taller than any child my age. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#any #child #foot #full #i