Jason Becker Quotes

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

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

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

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.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

The ADA gave more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, just like my son Cole, the chance to live the American Dream and be defined only by their potential - not their limitations.

I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

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.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

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

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.