Reggie Jackson is a television personality and former Olympic gold medalist decathlete. Caitlyn Jenner was born male but has been acknowledged as a transgender woman since April 2015. Jenner’s performance with the Graceland Yellowjackets in college football was excellent.
Jenner also has a successful career in television, cinema, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model. Now, take a look at the top 105 Caitlyn Jenner quotes that will always inspire you.
“I’m just going to live my life.”
I’m going to go have some fun.
I no longer have anything to hide.
“I am a free person, a free soul.”“Growing up wasn’t simple; it was frustrating.”
If I had been a great reader, it would have come naturally, as would sports and everything else, and I would never have discovered that the only way to move forward in life is by hard work.”“You can gamble, cheat, lie, and steal.”
Let me explain: gamble for your greatest chance in life, and be willing to take chances.
Lie to those who want you to be less than you are.
Lie down in the arms of those you care about.
Finally, take advantage of every moment of enjoyment.”“There’s nothing better in life than waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror, and feeling at ease with yourself and who you are.”
“Begin early and gradually raise the bar over the day.”
“I probably wouldn’t have won the Games if I hadn’t been dyslexic.”
If I had been a better reader, that would have come naturally, as would sports…
and I would never have learnt that hard effort is the only way to get ahead in life.”“I’m overjoyed to be living my genuine self after such a lengthy fight.”
Caitlyn, welcome to the world.
I can’t wait for you to meet her/me.”“I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, my pastor, and God, and kind of came to the realization that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and give that person – this lady who has been inside me my entire life – a chance to exist.”
“The only thing I did was wear the same pair of socks in every decathlon I’ve ever competed in.”
“I’ve always fought with my identity.
It’s not like this just happened last week.”“So many people go through life without dealing with their own difficulties, no matter what they are – ours happens to be gender identity.”
But how many individuals go through life wasting a full life because they will never deal with themselves to be who they are.”
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“Sexuality is the individual you are personally drawn to…
Gender identity, on the other hand, is who you are in your essence.”“I realized that the only way to move forward in life is to put in the effort.”
There is no way around it, whether you are a singer, a writer, an athlete, or a businessman.
If you do, you will win; if you do not, you will lose.”“Practicing hard hurts every day, but once this decathlon is complete, I’ll have the rest of my life to recover.”
Who cares how awful the pain is?”“I’ve always thought that my greatest advantage was my brain aptitude, not my physical ability.”
“COPD is characterized by chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both.”
It becomes increasingly difficult to breathe as less air flows into and out of the lungs.”“I used to think everyone else was better than me.”
“The most difficult aspect of being a woman is deciding what to wear.”
“The major issue with dyslexic children is their perception of themselves, not their perceptual problems.”
That was my main issue.”“I got into sports because it was a way to demonstrate your masculinity.”
“I was pretty excellent at it.”“I want to look nice.
“I want to appear nice.”“If you’re going to devote every second of your life to winning the decathlon, why are you wasting your time in bed?”
“I still have dreams about exams.”
“I am a member of the Kardashian clan.”
“We’ll accept anything.”“I am not a spokesperson for the transgender community.
The media portrays me as the spokesperson, but from my perspective, I am not.
“All I can say is that I am a spokesperson for my experience.”“Bruce had to lie all the time.”
That was his constant lie.
Caitlyn isn’t hiding anything.”“Sports literally saved my life.”
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“I probably made it all the way through junior high before a school doctor told me I was ‘dyslexic.'”
“The Montreal Olympics were held in July 1976, at the height of patriotism.”
“My dyslexia was my best gift in life.”
It made me unique.
It made me unique.
I wouldn’t have needed athletics if I hadn’t been dyslexic.”“In the decathlon, speed is more crucial than endurance.”
“First and foremost, I strive to be a positive role model.”
“I didn’t just have a perceptual impairment; I was also really scared and disturbed.”
The procedure just did not work.
I lost interest in school and failed second grade.
“My teachers said I was a slacker.”“I spent twelve years training for a job that lasted only a week.”
Joe Namath spent one week training for a twelve-year career.”“I thought everyone else was doing a lot better than me.”
“I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s.
They didn’t even know what dyslexia was back then.”“Reading is really crucial for children.”
“If you are dyslexic, your eyes and brain work normally, but there is a short circuit in the wire that connects the eye and the brain.”
Reading is not an easy task.”“If you want your children to exercise, you should exercise as well.”
“Preach what you preach.”“It caused more issues as a child because the simple process of comprehending words on a piece of paper was difficult for me.”
Many individuals believe that dyslexics view things backwards.
They don’t view things in reverse.”“No one has milked one performance like I have – and I’m darned proud of it.”
“Our objective for young people is to make fitness cool, hip, and the thing to do.”
“The truth is that everyone does it now and then.”
People dial numbers and get the wrong number only to discover that they had read the last two digits backwards.
Everyone does it, but dyslexics have a stronger tendency.”“Waving the flag at the Olympics in 1976 was not my idea.
It was an overabundance of apple pie and ice cream.
Not that I don’t love my nation, but I felt it was my win up there, and I gave it my all.”“We put so much pressure on kids at such a young age to excel in school.”
“When it comes time for your brain to interpret the information, the second word appears faster than the first.”
So when you’re thinking about it, it comes out backwards and you think of the term backwards.”“I was dyslexic as a child.”
“I wouldn’t have needed athletics if I hadn’t been dyslexic.”
I’d have been like any other youngster.
Instead, I discovered my one thing and vowed never to let it go.
That dyslexic child is constantly in the back of your mind.”
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“It’s about working while no one is looking.”
“Raising children and trying to do the best job as a parent and giving your kids the best chance in life to go out there into the big, terrible world is the most important thing you do in your life.”
“My mother is remarkably open-minded for an 89-year-old.”
“Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, it’s like going to the mailbox is exciting every day…
Because I receive letters from individuals all around the world every day.”“Almost no one gets to experience two genders in their lifetime.”
“Choosing your own name is one of the most difficult things in life.”
“I made a lot of blunders in raising the four Jenner children.”
“Everyone wants to have a spouse; everyone wants to have a family, and for trans individuals, that can be very challenging at times.”
“I have ten kids.”
Kimberly and I are expecting our eighth grandchild.
“I have so many amazing children.”“I obviously am not stupid if I can make a dollar.”
“You don’t go out and alter your gender for a TV show, do you?”
It’s not going to happen.
It makes no difference who you are.”“The ‘Vanity Fair’ article was exciting to write since it was the first time I had the opportunity to be completely honest with a reporter about every element of my life.”
“I’ve discovered that women have a lot of untapped strength that they don’t really use because they don’t believe in themselves and what they can do.”
“I’ve always been around and drawn to strong women, and I believe I’ve learnt a lot from them.”
“I had no sense of style.”
Everyone in my family had a sense of style, so I learned everything I could.”“When you have a voice and an opportunity to communicate on a global scale, it needs to be appropriate.”
“Some people appear gender nonconforming because they want to – they don’t want to adhere to society’s standards.”
“I wish I was more normal.
It would be so much easier.”“Trans individuals deserve something essential: your respect.”
Respect leads to a more caring community.”“I never intended to hurt anyone else, especially my family and children.”
“If you want to call me names, make jokes, and cast doubt on my intentions, go ahead; the reality is that I can handle it.”
“I had a couple meetings with Arthur Ashe.
I know how valuable education was to him.”“I’m a lady for all intents and purposes.”
“It’s a business to be a celebrity.”
“In fifth grade, I discovered something I was better at than the other kids.”
The teacher once put up a lot of chairs and had everyone sprint to them and back while she timed us.
I had the quickest time in the entire school!”“I’ve actually enjoyed living by myself in Malibu.
I have some freedom because I have the entire house to myself.
The difficult part is when you, you know, get fairly lonely.”
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“Sometimes I feel so distant, you know?”
The Kardashians are over there, the Jenners are over there, and I’m in the center.
We have to keep the family together.”“What I went through in 1976 is still the same today: all the pressure, anxiety, family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then going there knowing this is your big chance, and you’re able to pull through.”
It’s a very rewarding feeling.”“I don’t have anything Olympic in our house – no photographs, no anything like that.”
That is something I do consciously.
I don’t want to hang that over the heads of my ten children.”“We have a tremendous legacy of great decathletes here in the United States, which is amazing because we have no program to train these guys.”
Zero.
There isn’t anything.
They do it on their own, just as I did in 1976.”“I’ve been married to Kris for 21 years, and we’ve always had disagreements.
And it’s not particularly noteworthy.”“I’d been carpooling children for 33 years.”
“Decathletes must train for each event separately: sprints one day, field events the next.”
You push yourself up to get powerful enough to throw?
At 250 pounds, try pole vaulting.
Most decathlons have 32 men competing in 32 separate track meets.”“I’m just glad my gold medal is here because I wouldn’t want to try to earn another.”
“The film ‘Can’t Stop the Music’ has become a cult classic.”
It’s quite shocking to me.
People often approach me and say, ‘I just saw it!'”“Being the world’s best athlete simply does not cut it on the golf field.”
“The next great decathlete will be a runner.”
I still believe that a Dan O’Brien, if he had been a runner rather than a sprinter, could have scored more than 9,000 points.”“I called Daley Thompson after he won the 1984 Olympics.”
He’d had a fantastic decathlon for nine events, and then he went out there and ran the 1,500 meters, missing the world record by about three points.”“I enjoy the 1,500 meters.”
I knew if I had to run sub 4:05 to win, I’d do it.
That implies I could score 100 or even 150 points on anyone in the world.”“I’ve always had issues with my knee.”
But it got to the point where I had to start giving things up.
And I despise it.”“I used to play a lot of tennis, and then, boom, same thing with tennis.”
I couldn’t do it with the knee slamming, the jarring, twisting movements.
“Suddenly, every time I played, my knee swelled up.”“I spent the last 12 years of my life, the last six years of my life, training six to eight hours a day, every day.”
When I was 20 to 26 years old, I could do stuff like that and no one would notice.”“I’ll be set for the rest of my life if I win the gold medal.”
The medal does not provide you with anything, but it does make you a marketable object.
Take it and see what you can do with it.”“I never sought stardom.”
It landed in my lap.”“If I had to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I’d say fatherhood is a lot more difficult.”
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“‘Esquire Magazine’ recently named me ‘Father of the Year.’
It’ll go right alongside my gold medal.
“They gave it to me because I survived.”“I’m a pretty easygoing person.”
Nothing beats seeing your children succeed in life.”“My health has always been vital to me as an athlete.”
“It’s critical for individuals to understand that they shouldn’t overlook symptoms like shortness of breath or a persistent cough since these could be markers of COPD.”
“My wife Kris and I live an active lifestyle, so it’s difficult to think what it would be like if breathing problems prevented me from engaging in the activities I enjoy.”
But it is exactly what many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive lung disease, experience.”“In 1976, I wore USA on my chest.”
“There’s almost an underground conservative movement in Hollywood.”
“Fortunately, I’ve been very healthy and active my entire life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.”
“I underwent two knee surgeries on my right knee, which was my jumping leg for years and years.”
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“Anti-inflammatories seemed to work well for my joints, but you couldn’t take them all of the time.”
“You still think we can all go out there and run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but when you actually attempt to do it, it’s kind of scary.”
“I’ve received more criticism for being a conservative Republican than for being trans.”
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