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."

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

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

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.

"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."