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 JennerI'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.
Bruce JennerI always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Bruce JennerThe most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.
Bruce JennerI 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.
Bruce Jenner