I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINSThe idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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