Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

It's not much different to Formula One where they are improving the cars constantly. The difference is every hand biker needs a different bike depending on their residual ability.

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

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

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

The prostheses do not run the race on their own: there is an athlete who does the work, and the prosthetics do not make a significant difference to the time.

It's extremely important for my sit ski to be perfectly fit to me. If it's too big, and I shift around, the energy and strength I put into propelling myself forward will be lost. The right fit is everything in my sport.

I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.

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.

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

The biggest challenge during competition is keeping my real legs warm with clothing, because I have poor circulation in the tissue around the amputated areas.

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

The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.

I mean if anyone's comfortable being famous, they're a psychopath.

Swimmers do not get a lot of telly time so you are not dealing with a lot of egos.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

That's what fame is: solitude.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.