I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
AIMEE MULLINSOur insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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.
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