Amy Purdy Quotes
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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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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 always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
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I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.
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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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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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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 am not an over-the-top kind of person.
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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
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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 love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
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You don't have to be positive all the time.
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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'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.
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I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski resorts close to Las Vegas, up in Mount Charleston or Brian Head, so I grew up skiing and snowboarding.
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I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.