Quotes About Paralympics

Watching Nyree Lewis get her medal in the 100 backstroke inspired me to want to go to a Paralympics and it just went on from there.

Before taking up dressage, I'd distanced myself from the Paralympics because I hadn't wanted to be defined by my disability. Then when I grew up and got an office job, things started to change. I'm actually allergic to horses, but I'm even more allergic to paperwork!

A lot of times, people think 'para' as far as 'paralyzed.' 'Para' means 'alongside,' so the Paralympics are alongside the Olympics on the same courses, the same hills.

I had the world against me. I was told I shouldn't be doing sport and that I wouldn't go to the Paralympics. I've had so many barriers.

In Beijing the emotion built and built. I was at a Paralympics and I was so nervous. When I achieved my goal all that emotion came out.

The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

Having all that experience, and that success as well, at a Paralympics was just amazing but I don't really remember much from Beijing, it was quite a blur.

I joke that the Olympics is the warm-up to the Paralympics.

To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful.

After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.

I am so grateful that respected global swimwear brand Arena stepped up to support U.S. Paralympics as a supplier. They also sponsor me individually, as their first Paralympic swimmer.

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 the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

I really want to share my story, but also make Paralympics more well known.

For me I normally rise up to a Paralympics, I love those pressured environments.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.

When I started I only swam freestyle, and did just freestyle in my first Paralympics.

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

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 amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.

Here in Tokyo, this is one of my favorite Paralympics I've ever attended.

I want to go to the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020 so that's my aim in sport, but what do I want to do after I retire? Do I want to do a normal job? I would like to become a primary school teacher but... it will be totally different.

I didn't find out about the Paralympics until I was 18 years old. Once I found out what the Paralympics were, I was so excited to know I had a chance to represent my country and wear Team U.S.A. on my back.