Famous Quotes

"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."

Shawn Johnson on Fitness

More quotes about Fitness

• "Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."

  John F. Kennedy on Fitness

• "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Fitness

• "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

  Jim Rohn on Fitness

• "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."

  Thomas Jefferson on Fitness

• "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

  Thomas Jefferson on Fitness

More quotes by Shawn Johnson

• "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."

• "The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!"

• "I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it."

• "I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'"

• "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."