Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

If you can dream it and visualize it, they you can achieve it.

My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand.

The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.