Amy Purdy Quotes
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I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
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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 lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
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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.
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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 got this second chance at life, and I live it.
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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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Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.
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There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.
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If you believe that you can't do something, then you're not going to do it. If you believe you can, and you're willing to put in the effort and figure out a way to do it, then the majority of the time, you can.
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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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My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.
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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
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As humans, we need to reach out for support.
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I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs.
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I have a very good sense of my body and where it's at. Although I don't feel the ground in the same way that somebody else would, I'm very aware... I can feel pressure, and I know exactly where my toes are and exactly where my heel is.
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I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.
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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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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.
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My dad gave me one of his kidneys.
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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 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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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
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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.