Focus on what you want to do, don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. You gotta take risks at times

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

Focus on what you want to do, don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. You gotta take risks at times