Amy Purdy Quotes

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.

It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.

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.

I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

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

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

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.'

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

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.

It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.

There were so many stories and so many instances where I had guys telling me that this game was for two-handed players and not for one-handed players, and I'll go out here and get myself hurt.

The Paralympic Games actually turned my whole mentality around about disability. When you're in the Paralympic athletes' village and there are 4,000 disabled people, you stop seeing disability. Totally.

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.

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.

I've not just played for England. I've done it for all the black players out there - to prove that they can do it.

You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'