I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

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.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.