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Bruce Jenner
American
Athlete
About the author
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#People
#Exercise
#Mission
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Day
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Kids
#Perception
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.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Time
#People
#Wrong
#Truth
#Numbers
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Kids
#Age
#School
#Pressure
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#First
#Positive
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Ability
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Work
#Teachers
#School
#Enthusiasm
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.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Work
#Writer
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Years
#Career
#Training
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.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Eye
#Work
#Reading
#Eyes
I still have nightmares about taking tests.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Tests
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Thought
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Time
#First
#Information
#Word
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.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Work
#Games
#Hard work
#Sports
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Growing up
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.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Love
#Country
#Idea
#Victory
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Reading
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Kids
#Practice
#Exercise
If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Winning
#Bed
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.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Words
#People
#Problems
Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
Bruce Jenner,
American
Athlete
#Performance