Success 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.
AIMEE MULLINSLife is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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