"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."

"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 called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points."

"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."

"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 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."

"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 never went after fame. It fell into my lap."

"The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism."

"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."

"'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."

"As an athlete, my health has always been important to me."

"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."

"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."

"I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976."

"There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really."

"Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle."

"I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years."

"Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time."

"You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary."

"I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans."

"I would think that Texas has a tremendous amount of motivation building into this game, just as we do, and they don't need any more than that. If that helps them, then it's OK. I can't do anything about it."