Caitlyn Jenner
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.Collection: Sports
The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.Collection: Patriotism
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.Collection: Positive
Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.Collection: Best
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.Collection: Parenting
Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.Collection: Sports
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.Collection: Cool
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.
Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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.
Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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 still have nightmares about taking tests.
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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.
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
I always thought everybody else was better than me.
I was a dyslexic kid.
If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
It's about working when nobody's watching.
I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.
My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.