“I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.”

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.

I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!

I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.

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.

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.

You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.

Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.

Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.

I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.