Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSI’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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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 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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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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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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