Mobility Impairment Quotes

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

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.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

You know, some people think since I can't move I am a vegetable. Wrong. Just picture yourself as you are, just always sitting down and if you need something a hot babe takes care of you. I am exaggerating a little, but this is how I see it.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

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

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

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

I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.

When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.

A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies to towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject.

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

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

At least he never walked.

Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.

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

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

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.

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

When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space.

When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.