When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

The 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.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

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.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

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