Words matter. These are the best Caitlyn Jenner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I’ve learned a lot from them.
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.
Sports saved my life.
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 still have nightmares about taking tests.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
‘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.
If you’re going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in 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.
If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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.
I’m very laid back, easy. There’s nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
Being the world’s greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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.
The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.
If you’re asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to… But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
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.
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.
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.
I was a dyslexic kid.
Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn’t take them all the time.
I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
I always thought everybody else was better than me.
I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was ‘dyslexic.’
I’m just glad my gold medal’s at home, because I’d hate to try to win another.
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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 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.
My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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 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 never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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 only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
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.
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.
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.
I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. Back then they didn’t even know what dyslexia was.
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.
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.
I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip – the thing to do.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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.
‘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!’
It’s one of the hardest things in life – choosing your own name.
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.
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.
Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn’t have any secrets.
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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.
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 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 have 10 children. I’ve got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.
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 want to dress well. I want to look good.
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 never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.
I have struggled with identity all my life. It’s not like something that just happened last week.
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.