Amy Purdy Quotes
-
The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.
-
Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
-
I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.
-
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
-
The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.
-
Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.
-
I'm really motivated by music, and I love dancing, even if it's just by myself in my room or if it's going out with my friends.
-
We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
-
I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.
-
I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.
-
When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like.
-
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
-
My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
-
Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
-
I am not an over-the-top kind of person.
-
I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
-
When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
-
I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.
-
I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
-
Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.
-
My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.
-
If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.
-
I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.
-
I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.