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.

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.

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

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

What do I and a diamond have in common? We are tough, brilliant, and carbon based entities which evolved into something better under immense pressure, tribulation, and trials.

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

As I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I want to see who made faces at me when I turned my head. That's all I want to see.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.