Paralympic Quotes

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

Stella Young

#2. The Paralympic movement has given me a lifetime of joy and accomplishment but really, the pleasure has been all mine. I've loved every single moment and continue to be involved.

Tim Frick

#3. I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

Johann Lamont

#4. 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.

Oscar Pistorius

#5. I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.

Heather Mills

#6. The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Stephen Hawking

#7. Nobody is on the Paralympic Team until three months before those games.

Heather Mills

#8. 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.

David Cameron

#9. I like the modern form. Anyone who absolutely has to understand everything he sees misses a lot. It's not always true that obscure words come from obscure thoughts.

Tarjei Vesaas

#10. Apeshit has rarely enjoyed so literal a denotation.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Love is a game
of tic-tac-toe,
constantly waiting
for the next x or o.

Lang Leav

#12. Let each man have according to his deserts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.

Amy Bloom

#14. Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination!

Sharon Fletcher