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

I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

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

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

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

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.