A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
AIMEE MULLINSI feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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.’
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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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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.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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.
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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’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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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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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