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

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Bruce Jenner

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 Jenner

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.
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.
Bruce Jenner

I still have nightmares about taking tests.
Bruce Jenner

I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
Bruce Jenner

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
Bruce 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.
Bruce Jenner

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
Bruce Jenner


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.
Bruce Jenner

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

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

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.
Bruce Jenner

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

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

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Bruce Jenner

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

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.
Bruce Jenner

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.
Bruce Jenner