Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

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.

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.

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

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

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