You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

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.

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

Have an open mind and an open heart. I'm not this bad person. I'm just doing what I have to do.

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

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.