Challenges Quote by Billy Monger

Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean…

— Amy Purdy

My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around…

— Aimee Mullins

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

— Oksana Masters

I've been a bilateral amputee since birth and don't know anything else.

— Jessica Long

There's a big difference between me being an amputee from when I was 13 months old to someone who's lost their leg in an…

— Alex Brooker

If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more…

— Oscar Pistorius

You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

— Hugh Elliot

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New…

— Terry Fox

Everyone had legs. Even my younger sisters both had legs. It was hard to comprehend what I did wrong: Why me? Then I found…

— Jessica Long

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an…

— Richard Leakey

I do like a physical challenge.

— Alex Brooker

I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.

— Mike Schultz