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The Paralympics will grip audiences and the public will get used to seeing disabled people. They will see that they are just the same…

— Alex Brooker

When I auditioned to be a reporter for Channel 4's Paralympic coverage I was wary because there weren't any disabled people on TV, and…

— Alex Brooker

....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where…

— Joey Reiman

The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled…

— Stella Young

I genuinely believe the Paralympics will change perceptions of disability in this country, one of the main reasons being that they will take disability…

— Alex Brooker

There was a time in 2008 where no one really wanted to talk to the Paralympic athletes.

— Jessica Long

The carer of the disabled person is always in the background. People don't want to hear about the sleaze and the nitty-gritty and the…

— Jane Hawking

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

— Oscar Pistorius

Well, I call the Olympic Games the crappy warm ups for the Paralympic Games, right? Once every four years people with disability are the…

— Dylan Alcott

I didn't think disabled people were allowed in films, because I didn't see any.

— Adam Pearson

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

— Stella Young

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