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 MULLINSPeople presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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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.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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