The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is - before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful - do whatever makes you feel confident. If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. 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.

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.

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

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

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.