black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Aimee Mullins

Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
AIMEE MULLINS

Disability Everyone Insecurity Struggle
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Athlete Defeat Elation Emotion Experience Glory Sport Success Teamwork Triumph
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINS

Body Call Celebrity Disabled More
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 MULLINS

Arena Athlete Beautiful Beyond Capability Complete Excel Human Normal Power Sport Success
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Advantage Bring Girl Learn Overlook Player Softball
I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
AIMEE MULLINS

Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
AIMEE MULLINS

Able Being Block Body Compromise Few Mind Run Running Stress Time
It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINS

Enough Heel High Stilt Walk Woman
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Children Community Disability Felt Growing Identity Ownership Up
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’?
AIMEE MULLINS

Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Beautiful Besides Kissing Out Sleep Water
Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
AIMEE MULLINS

Adversity Ground Life Living Need Obstacle Order Resume
I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
AIMEE MULLINS

Admire Back Coming Doing Keep One Time
And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
AIMEE MULLINS

Certainly Come Enough Evolve Impact Language Technology
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
AIMEE MULLINS

Better Connect Get Giving Roller Coaster Thing True Up
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.’
AIMEE MULLINS

Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINS

Belief Disability Everyone Feel Something Thinking Weakness
When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
AIMEE MULLINS

Curious Explore Feel Really Something Take
And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
AIMEE MULLINS

Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Confront Consistent Definition Describe Disability Real Thinking Truthfully
It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINS

Beautiful Humanity Make Our Potential Within
I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
AIMEE MULLINS

Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
AIMEE MULLINS

Around Disability Evolution Feel Lived Regard Some
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
AIMEE MULLINS

Adversity Care Easy Meet Prepare Responsibility Simply Well
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
AIMEE MULLINS

Body Life Lot Prove

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aimee Mullins Quotes