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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.

Aimee Mullins

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
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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Chase Chasing Dream Moaner Myself People Surround
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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Admire Athlete Day Excellent Most Necessary Particular People Success Wonderful
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Amputee Asking Challenge Disable Handicap Journalist Knee Physical
Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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Confront Consistent Definition Describe Disability Real Thinking Truthfully
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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Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
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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Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Beauty Complete Inner Radiate True
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
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Body Life Lot Prove
Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Disability Everyone Insecurity Struggle
It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Afraid Challenge Everyone Getting Good Motivation Softball Sport
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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Body Disable Enhancement Hollywood Thinking
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Athletic Idea Possibility Presume

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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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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