Amy Purdy Quotes
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Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.
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My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.
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I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.
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I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
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My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.
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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.
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That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.
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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.
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After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.
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I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
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Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
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I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
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As humans, we need to reach out for support.
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I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.
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That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.
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I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.
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To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.
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In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.
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I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.
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I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
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I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.
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In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
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Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.