Quotes from Bruce Jenner

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

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

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.

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.

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 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.