But we love being together and working together all day - and most days, we are. When I'm on the road, I call in about 10 times a day.
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental 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.
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 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.
I still have nightmares about taking tests.
I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
I'd look around to my peers, and everyone else could do this simple process of reading, but for me it wasn't working.
I've enjoyed playing Bruce Jenner.
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.
If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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 you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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.
Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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.
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.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
When talking with kids about dyslexia in schools, I try building up their self-esteem, (to counter) their feeling of being stupid and not as smart as other kids.
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.
I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.
He was Olympic decathlon winner 1976.
Kendall Nicole Jenner was born 3 November 1995. "Nicole" is in honor of Nicole Brown Simpson, who was 'Kris Jenner''s best friend. Kris is the ex-wife of O.J. Simpson attorney and best friend Robert Kardashian.
Turned down the title role in Superman (1978).
Kathie Lee Gifford is the godmother of his daughter, Kendall.
When preparing for the 1976 Olympics, he trained 6 to 8 hours every day for four years.
Finished 10th place in the 1972 Olympics decathlon.
Attended Graceland College (Lamoni, Iowa, USA)
His father was a pole vaulter in the Army.
Has 10 children (including four step-children): Burt, Casey Jenner, Brandon Jenner, Brody Jenner, Kourtney, Kimberly, Khloe, Robert, Kendall and Kylie.
His daughter, Casey Jenner, with Chrystie Jenner, was born after their divorce.
Inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, 1986.
Daughter, Kylie, was born 10 August 1997
Is mentioned by name in the Save Ferris song "Spam".
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