I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSSuccess 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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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.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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