Amputation Quote by Terry Fox

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so…

— Nick Vujicic

When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone…

— Oksana Masters

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

— Oscar Pistorius

I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's…

— Simi Linton

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or…

— Aimee Mullins

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our…

— Amy Purdy

My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

— Rick Hansen

“It occurred to me that my disability wasn’t something to overcome, that it instead had intrinsically shaped the person I was. It was me…

— 404 Ink

When I did 'Sink or Swim,' there was a moment in Lake Windermere where I struggled, and I felt for the first time in…

— Alex Brooker

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

— Aimee Mullins

There weren't any other disabled people at my secondary school, so it was quite weird to find myself pigeonholing myself as disabled... and I…

— Alex Brooker

I don't think you can only have people with disability talking about the Paralympics. Clare Balding didn't need to be disabled to cover it.

— Josh Widdicombe