“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.”

I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’

I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’

It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.

If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.

It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,

It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.

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.’

For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.

I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.

I’d still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

What is simple in one arena is often profound in another.