Great Throughts Treasury

"People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You’re either participating in the Game of Life or you’re watching it from the grandstands. Herein lies a crucial difference. A champion plays the game: a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes after it with carefully calculated goals and no-holds-barred action. A spectator feels that his or her life is not their own. They let others dictate their destiny. They become victims of life instead of masters of it.”"

"Be true to yourself, be your own person ? and be caring to others, as well."

"Am I saying goodbye to something? I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am."

"As of now, I have all the male parts."

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

"For all intents and purposes, I am a woman."

"God's looking down making little Bruce. He's looking down and he says, 'Okay, what are we going to do with this one?' ? God looks down, chuckles a little bit and says, 'Lets give him a soul of a female!?"

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

"I always thought everybody else was better than me."

"I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything."

"I can't do that any longer."

"I am not gay, i am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I've always been with a woman, raising kids."

"I feel like I am getting an upgraded version of my dad."

"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 just want to have a free soul and a lot of great friends. I want to enjoy life. It's who I am. It's that simple."

"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 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 was a dyslexic kid."

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

"I still have nightmares about taking tests."

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

"I would sit in church and I would always wonder ? In God's eyes how He would see me ? This is my cause in life ? This is why God put me on this Earth ? to deal with this issue."

"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."

"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 want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory."

"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."

"In high school, you know how they have the ideal senior in the yearbook? I got ?best dancer.?"

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

"If you?re stuck and you don?t know how to rise, don?t look outside yourself. Look inside."

"In the next house, I'm going to build a glam room."

"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."

"Kim told me a story, she goes, 'You know what really turned me around on thinking about this?' And I said 'What?' She goes 'Kanye.'."

"Kimberly has been by far the most accepting ? Kim says, 'girl you have to rock it baby!'"

"It's not that I'm trying to dress up as a woman, I've spent my whole life dressing as a man."

"It's about working when nobody's watching."

"Kris is a good woman, I got no complaints with her. Honestly, if she had been really good with it, understanding, we'd still be together."

"My heartfelt and deepest sympathies go out to the family and loved ones, and to all of those who were involved or injured in this terrible accident, it is a devastating tragedy, and I cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. I am praying for them. I will continue to cooperate in every way possible."

"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."

"Sexuality is totally different than what my issues are."

"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."

"They're going to say I'm doing this for publicity, for a show. But what I'm doing is going to do some good. It's going to change the world."

"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."

"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."

"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."

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

"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."