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.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

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

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.