Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
AIMEE MULLINSFor 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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