Mike Schultz Quotes

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.

Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

I want people to really be inspired, to believe they can do whatever they want.

If I can sit on national television, and people are listening to what I think, anyone can do anything.

It took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's possible for anyone, and these people who are singers started off very normal... I realized that it was not that hard to do.

I'm gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.

That's really what the Paralympics is about: these amazing athletes and this technology that's allowing them to reach their full potential.

It is one thing to tell people in theory that you can be whatever you want to be, but it is another thing to tell someone that they can be whatever they wanted to be because somebody that is just like you did it.

For me, Paralympic sport isn't about being the best human being. It's about being the best human being with that particular level of disability.

Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.