“If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.”

“Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.”

“Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would...”

“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 ...”

“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 ...”

“I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.”

“Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.”

“We all know that when the lights are out all women are the same height!”

“Some girls are intimidated by my height, obviously. But a lot of girls do like it, so that's cool.”

“If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.”

“Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just...”