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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.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy
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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.
Amy Purdy -
I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy -
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
Amy Purdy -
We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.
Amy Purdy -
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
Amy Purdy
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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.
Amy Purdy -
The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy -
My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.
Amy Purdy
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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.
Amy Purdy -
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
Amy Purdy -
If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy -
My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.
Amy Purdy -
There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.
Amy Purdy
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I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.
Amy Purdy -
Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy -
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.
Amy Purdy