Bruce Jenner Quotes About Sports
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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.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.
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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 was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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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.
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Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
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I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] 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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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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I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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