Top 40 Bruce Jenner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You have to train your mind like you train your body.”

— Bruce Jenner

2. “The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.”

— Bruce Jenner

3. “When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.”

— Bruce Jenner

4. “Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.”

— Bruce Jenner

5. “Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We’re going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.”

— Bruce Jenner

6. “Have an open mind and an open heart. I’m not this bad person. I’m just doing what I have to do.”

— Bruce Jenner

7. “I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”

— Bruce Jenner

8. “If you’re going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?”

— Bruce Jenner

9. “I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win – if you don’t, you won’t.”

— Bruce Jenner

10. “We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.”

— Bruce Jenner

11. “If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.”

— Bruce Jenner

12. “It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?”

— Bruce Jenner

13. “Fear is part of the process. If you weren’t scared, you’d be in trouble.”

— Bruce Jenner

14. “When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it’s in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.”

— Bruce Jenner

15. “I’m so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self.”

— Bruce Jenner

16. “The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.”

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17. “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’”

— Bruce Jenner

18. “The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you’re the best 1,500-meter runner.”

— Bruce Jenner

19. “I’m saying goodbye to people’s perception of me and who I am, I’m not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.”

— Bruce Jenner

20. “People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You’re either participating in the Game of Life or you’re watching it from the grandstands.”

— Bruce Jenner

21. “It’s not just about me. It’s about all of us accepting one another. We’re all different. It’s not a bad thing. It’s a good thing.”

— Bruce Jenner

22. “If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you’re stuck and you don’t know how to rise, don’t look outside yourself. Look inside. Don’t let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.”

— Bruce Jenner

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

— Bruce Jenner

24. “If I die, I’d be so mad at myself that I didn’t explore that side of me.”

— Bruce Jenner

25. “Trans people deserve something vital: They deserve your respect. If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is, I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there, coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn’t have to take it.”

— Bruce Jenner

26. “The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they’ve read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.”

— Bruce Jenner

27. “I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.”

— Bruce Jenner

28. “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.”

— Bruce Jenner

29. “What I’m doing is going to do some good and we’re going to change the world.”

— Bruce Jenner

30. “I don’t think I’ve ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.”

— Bruce Jenner

31. “I’m the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.”

— Bruce Jenner

32. “It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don’t see things backwards.”

— Bruce Jenner

33. “Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I’m damned proud of it.”

— Bruce Jenner

34. “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.”

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35. “Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can’t do it anymore.”

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36. “I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.”

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

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38. “To be honest with you, being Bruce isn’t easy.”

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39. “For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”

— Bruce Jenner

40. “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.”

— Bruce Jenner

41. “I’m kind of more on the conservative side.”

— Bruce Jenner

42. “I am not gay. I am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I’ve never been with a guy.”

— Bruce Jenner

43. “If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.”

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44. “I’m not stuck in anybody’s body. I’m me.”

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45. “I still have nightmares about taking tests.”

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46. “First of all, I try to be a positive role model.”

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47. “The first one of the girls I ever told was Kimberly.”

— Bruce Jenner