Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.

I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

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

I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.

I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.

I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

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.

In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!

I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.

The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

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.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.

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

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox ... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.

If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

I want to dress well. I want to look good.

I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

Being a celebrity is a business.

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

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

If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to ... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

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

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.

Decathletes have to train for every event: sprints one day, field events the next. You pump up to make yourself strong enough to throw? Try pole vaulting at 250 pounds. There are 32 guys in most decathlons, and they're in 32 little track meets.

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

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.

I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

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.