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.
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- Author's profession: Athlete
- Nationality: american
- Born: October 28, 1949
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