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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.

Aimee Mullins

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’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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Advocate Amputee Disability Human Interest Issue People
You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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Daily Day Function Having Impact Important Part
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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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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 is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Beautiful Humanity Make Our Potential Within
You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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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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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Arena Athlete Beautiful Beyond Capability Complete Excel Human Normal Power Sport Success
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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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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Children Community Disability Felt Growing Identity Ownership Up
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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Going Heroine Human Interest Interview Refuse Sport Story Tragic
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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