What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.

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 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.

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.

The first one of the girls I ever told was Kimberly.

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

Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.