A biography for Caitlyn Jennerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.”
“It's about working when nobody's watching.”
“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.”
“If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.”
“I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.”
“The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.”
“Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.”
“The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.”
“First of all, I try to be a positive role model.”
“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.”
“'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'”
“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”
“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.”
“It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.”
“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.”
“If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.”