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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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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.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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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.
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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.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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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.
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Sports saved my life.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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'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.
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The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.
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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.
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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.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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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.