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

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.
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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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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.
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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 Quote

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

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

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

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

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.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
- Bruce Jenner Quote