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.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
The first one of the girls I ever told was Kimberly.
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 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.
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] 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.
I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.
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.
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.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
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.
I'm not stuck in anybody's body. I'm me.
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.'
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.
I am not gay. I am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I've never been with a guy.
Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.
Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
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.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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.
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.
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