Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Caitlyn Jenner

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 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.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

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

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

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.

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.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

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.

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

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

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

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

If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

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

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

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

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

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.

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

COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.

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 am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

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.

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

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.

I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

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.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

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

My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

I was a dyslexic kid.