I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
AIMEE MULLINS
It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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