Bruce Jenner Quotes

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

If I die... I'd be so mad at myself that I didn't explore that side of me.

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self.

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

The first one of the girls I ever told was Kimberly.

I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.