Heather Mills Quotes

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

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

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

I was six years old before I realized that there was something wrong with me... But I did have this crooked left leg, and my left foot was turned inward.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.

After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running.

In 2010 I had to learn to walk again when I had my legs made the same length, after living with one leg two inches longer than the other until the age of 51.

You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and at the Paris Opera, I had to crawl down the stairs; it is only when I start to work and stretch that my body begins to recover again.

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

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

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

Preki quite literally only has the one foot

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

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.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.