I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.