Stella Young Quotes

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.

I joke that the Olympics is the warm-up to the Paralympics.

I was a torch carrier in the 2012 Paralympics and every time I thought 'I can't do this' I would look at the blade runners and the athletes and wheelchairs think, okay, I can run.

I never in a million years thought I would be able to be a Paralympic athlete.

I didn't find out about the Paralympics until I was 18 years old. Once I found out what the Paralympics were, I was so excited to know I had a chance to represent my country and wear Team U.S.A. on my back.

A lot of times, people think 'para' as far as 'paralyzed.' 'Para' means 'alongside,' so the Paralympics are alongside the Olympics on the same courses, the same hills.

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.

My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

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

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.

I represented Mexico trying to go to the Olympics.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

Competing in London would be a dream come true.

As a goalkeeper experience is a massive thing, and there is nothing better than playing games, which thankfully I managed to do at the Olympics.

I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful.

I'm looking forward to the fighting with no headgear - I'm jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.