Oscar Pistorius Quotes

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• You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.
• If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees…
• Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
• It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!
• Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what…
• Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.
• Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in…
• There is a big difference between being good and being great.
• The only disability in life is having a bad attitude
• Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage
• I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.
• I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes
• Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was…
• To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a…
• I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week…
• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into…
• I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some…
• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and…
• 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…
• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London,…

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