Pistorius Quotes

#1. The last time I saw a blonde with red streaks in her hair she was laying on Oscar Pistorius' bathroom floor,

Joan Rivers

#2. However fearful I am, when I contemplate the possibility that someone might finally realize I'm here, I can feel the wings of a bird called hope beginning to beat softly inside my chest.

Martin Pistorius

#3. 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

#4. I could see neither fascination nor delight on their faces, and I wondered if it was possible to get so used to joy that you stopped noticing it?

Martin Pistorius

#5. I think every athlete that's just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.

Oscar Pistorius

#6. When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

Oscar Pistorius

#7. It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.

Martin Pistorius

#8. To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.

Oscar Pistorius

#9. I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

Oscar Pistorius

#10. If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will.

Martin Pistorius

#11. It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

Oscar Pistorius

#12. Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

Oscar Pistorius

#13. And it was then that I realized that families might be the ones who pick us up time and again but strangers can also rescue us - even if they don't know they're doing so.

Martin Pistorius

#14. These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

Oscar Pistorius

#15. No one seems to consider that even people who are thought to be intellectually impaired can change as they grow older.

Martin Pistorius

#16. Romantic love has always interested me: the way it ebbs and flows like a living thing, or how it is revealed in secret smiles or anguished conversations. Perhaps I've always found it captivating because it was the starkest reminder of how alone I was.

Martin Pistorius

#17. I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

Oscar Pistorius

#18. Women seem to think they go on diets in order to feel happier, but I know from experience that this isn't true. In fact, I can safely say that the less women eat, the grumpier they get.

Martin Pistorius

#19. I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes

Oscar Pistorius

#20. The thought that I might soon hear my "voice" say, "I'm hungry" as many times as I want it to astounds me. Realizing that I might be able to ask, "What's on the TV?" amazes me. These simple words are my own personal Mount Everests, to think I might soon conquer them is almost unimaginable.

Martin Pistorius

#21. Sadness, though, is probably the hardest thing of all to hide because sorrow has a way of seeping out however well people think they're containing it. You only have to look to see the signs, but most people don't, which is why so many seem to end up feeling lonely.

Martin Pistorius

#22. At times it felt confusing to be surrounded by people, utterly alone and yet aware that God was my companion.

Martin Pistorius

#23. Do they really think that a limited intellect means a child can't feel viciousness in a person's touch or hear anger in the tone of their voice?

Martin Pistorius

#24. Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.

Martin Pistorius

#25. I know so much about other people's expectations and so little about my own.

Martin Pistorius

#26. I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

Oscar Pistorius

#27. Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

Oscar Pistorius

#28. Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

Oscar Pistorius

#29. I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

Oscar Pistorius

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

Oscar Pistorius

#31. None of us knows what we can bear until we're asked,

Martin Pistorius

#32. That kind of love can be passed from one person to the next, like a life force that will comfort anyone it touches and creates memories that burn strong years after the events that inspire them.

Martin Pistorius

#33. You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

Oscar Pistorius

#34. I'd been put into a box long before, after all. Each of us has. Are you the "difficult" child or the "histrionic" lover, the "argumentative" sibling or the "long-suffering" spouse? Boxes make us easier to understand, but they also imprison us because people don't see past them.

Martin Pistorius

#35. I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

Oscar Pistorius

#36. Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

Oscar Pistorius

#37. 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.

Oscar Pistorius

#38. I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

Oscar Pistorius

#39. Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

Oscar Pistorius

#40. My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

Oscar Pistorius

#41. You don't call the witness a liar, not while he is in the witness box.

Oscar Pistorius

#42. I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

Oscar Pistorius

#43. If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.

Oscar Pistorius

#44. Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage

Oscar Pistorius

#45. There is salt and sweet in every life.

Martin Pistorius

#46. And it was only in that moment, as I felt my father's arms holding me upright and his strength keeping me steady, that I knew his love was strong enough to protect me from an ocean.

Martin Pistorius

#47. I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

Oscar Pistorius

#48. Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Martin Pistorius

#49. The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

Oscar Pistorius