If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

If I die... I'd be so mad at myself that I didn't explore that side of me.

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

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.