Heather Mills Quotes

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

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

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.

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

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.

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

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 think it's phenomenal and expected that Paralympians will take on able bodied people more and more. In dressage, it happens all the time. But there are very few adaptions, and they are never allowed to give you an advantage.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

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.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

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

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

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

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.

People used to call the Paralympics the 'Special Olympics.' These men and women are athletes. They are warriors. They are people who are not confined by what they have been given. It's amazing to see where, and how far, the human body can really go.

People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.