Quotes from Caitlyn Jenner

I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

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

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

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.

Being a celebrity is a business.

I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

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.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!

Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

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

I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.

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

My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.