I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
It was a no-brainer to get the Unified snowboarding race into X Games.
I hope that any gay kids see me as beacon of light, not just in sport but in general.
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.
Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.
From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver's team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
All sports for all people.
Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
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.
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
Special Olympics is such an empowering organization for the thousands of athletes involved and those of us like myself who lend support to them.
I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about people with intellectual disabilities.
I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.
I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!
If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as if I've done my job.
I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?
I've played football one-handed. I've played football with no hands.
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.
Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.
