The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'