Greg Abbott Quotes

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

I've had lots of fans who come out and say, 'Listen, I can relate to Cyborg because I lost a limb,' or 'I have this cochlear implant.' It's one of those things when you actually start seeing it, when you actually start hearing about it, that made Cyborg more relevant to me than I think he ever had been up until that point.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

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.

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

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

I took my sight and mobility for granted.