Richard Simmons Quotes

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

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.

I was born with lots of deformities.

I was born with legs, but they were so deformed.

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

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

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

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

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 couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

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 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.

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

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

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.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.