Bruce Jenner Quotes

"If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?"
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Time, Winning, Bed)

"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
(Related: People, Problems, Words)

"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Performance)

"Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: People, Exercise, Mission)

"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Day)

"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Perception, Kids)

"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
(Related: Time, Truth, People, Numbers, Wrong)

"We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Age, Kids, Pressure, School)

"First of all, I try to be a positive role model."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Positive, First)

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Ability)

"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
(Related: Work, Enthusiasm, School, Teachers)

"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
(Related: Life, Work, Writer)

"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
(Related: Career, Training, Years)

"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
(Related: Work, Eye, Eyes, Reading)

"I still have nightmares about taking tests."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Tests)

"I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Thought)

"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."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Time, First, Information, Word)

"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
(Related: Life, Sports, Work, Games, Hard work)

"I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Growing up)

"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
(Related: Love, Time, Idea, Victory, Country)

"If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Reading)