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.
AIMEE MULLINSYou feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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