Caitlyn Jenner quotes:

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  • That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  • 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.

  • When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • I still have nightmares about taking tests.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

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

  • If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

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