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.
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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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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 is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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 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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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