Oscar Pistorius Quotes

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

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

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.

I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

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 guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

I want to ideate with people and come up with something through which I can rehabilitate people who are handicapped in some way and integrate them with people into mainstream. That's the bigger plan!

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.