People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

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.

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.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

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