Quotes About Paralympic Games

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Stephen Hawking

#4. 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

#5. Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

Imre Lakatos

#6. A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Max Stirner

#7. 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

#8. I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set.

Til Schweiger

#9. The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

John Shelby Spong

#10. He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

Mandy Patinkin

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

Heather Mills

#13. Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

Vijay Seshadri