Ty Simpkins Quotes

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

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

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can't. It's kind of like an outlet.

I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people.

Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.

My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

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

Being in New York, and meeting really amazing, talented, eccentric, and bold people, and just feeling really excited about life, got me really revved up and I just felt like everything was at my fingertips - that I could try anything. I really felt invincible. It was such a shift.

I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.

It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

Mario sees himself in Nintendo DS, and he feels like flying.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!