Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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