Quotes by Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

Body

Life Is

Prove

Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.

Adversity

Change

Inspirational

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

Doubt

May

Self

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

Motivation

Softball

Sports

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.

Children

Community

Growing Up

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?

Body

Enhancement

Thinking

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.

Home

Night

Paper

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

Girl

Player

Softball

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.

Block

Running

Stress

I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Disability

Interest

Issues

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Adversity

Athletics

Block

Body

Care

Champion

Change

Children

Community

Creative

Creativity

Curious

Disability

Disabled

Doubt

Enhancement

Feels

Firsts

Girl

Growing Up

Home

Ideas

Individuality

Inner Beauty

Innovation

Insecurity

Inspirational

Interest

Interviews

Issues

Life Is

May

Motivation

Night

Paper

People

Player

Possibility

Prosthetics

Prove

Quality

Responsibility

Running

Self

Softball

Sports

Stories

Stress

Struggle

Thinking

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Quotes by Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

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.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

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.

I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

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