John Daly Quotes

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from tome to time.

Today, I am a touring standup comic who cannot stand up. Within three minutes, I begin to wilt, lose my balance, and topple over. I can tap dance and run in heels, but I need to use a wheelchair to navigate airports.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.

I think people underestimate when you have a brace on your knee how much that truly restricts you.

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

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

We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

Everything in my house has had to be specially adapted, from the height of the bed to the positioning of doorknobs. Even my Rolls Royce had special stacked pedals and an extra-low steering wheel.