When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here

Facing a difficulty requires a willingness of heart.

The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.

If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.