“I tell kids in similar situations to never let anyone tell you who you are and what you can or cannot do…don’t let other’s get you down.” Robyn Shelton, 3rd base, Varsity softball team, no left leg.
“Pistorious unfairly rigged his Cheetahs” –American Paralympics champion Marlon Shirley who competed against and lost to Pistorious in the 2004 Paralympics
“If a racer wants to show up wearing 30 foot stilts made of Kevlar and bamboo, that’s OK” – Felix Gillette, journalist, in regards to the Paralympic committee’s failure to enforce height-adjustment rules.
“We are trying to bridge the gap between Olympics and Paralympics, between the disabled and the able-bodied” –Kevin Michael Connolly, Winter X Games silver medalist monoskier, and host of “Quest for Excellence”, a documentary that follows the lives of successful disabled artists
“[Professor] Peter Bruggemann [of the German Sports University] found that [Pistorious’] prosthetics were more efficient than the human ankle.” –the IAAF report on Oscar Pistorious’ prosthetic legs
“A bionic race would take away from the true competition. It is not my desire to give athletes a device that takes them beyond what their body can do” –Marlon Shirley
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