Quotes About Paralympics

#1. Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Stella Young

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

Heather Mills

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

Mark Zupan

#4. 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

#5. The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.

Stella Young

#6. What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

Joey Reiman

#7. Paralympics ... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

Doug Stanhope

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Stella Young

#10. I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.

Boris Johnson

#11. After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Robert Dale Owen

#12. Life is not always what we think it is.

Anthony Ray Hinton

#13. I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower.

Emily Blunt

#14. Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.

Giacomo Leopardi

#15. I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

David Axelrod

#16. Perhaps God had made a deal with the devil the day I was born. Freedom won't find me.

A. Giannoccaro