Top 60 Amy Purdy Quotes

I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

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

My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

Since losing my legs, I’ve found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I’ve overcome my obstacles.

I knew I loved dancing with my friends.

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

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.

I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn’t?

I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.

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.

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.

I’m so comfortable on my snowboard that I don’t have to think about it very much; it’s somewhat second nature.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t want to miss out on anything.

All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.

The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

I’ve always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

What’s cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

We’ve all seen that every challenge we’ve gone through, we’ve learned something from. It’s not getting hung up on the challenges but figuring out how to get ahead.

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.

I’ve always made the choice to do everything to my fullest potential.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

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.

I want to live a fulfilling life.

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.

I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want people to feel sorry for me. I didn’t want people to see me as disabled. I wanted to live a life of adventure and stories.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.

There are no rules in snowboarding.

Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.

Of course, there are benefits to having prosthetics. I can make myself as tall as I want. I can wear flip-flops in the snow if I wanted to. There’s benefits.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

It’s when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

I believe inspiration is contagious.

We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

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.

I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

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.

You don’t always have to have the most amazing story. It’s learning to share the story you have that counts.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn’t amputate my legs, I wouldn’t survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

I didn’t think about money or cars or anything like that.

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.

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

Every day that I am healthy, I want to use that day to its fullest now.

Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I’m truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at ‘DWTS’ who set it all up.

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.

I guess I’m always up for a challenge.

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.

I’m really motivated by music, and I love dancing, even if it’s just by myself in my room or if it’s going out with my friends.

A lot of times, people think ‘para’ as far as ‘paralyzed.’ ‘Para’ means ‘alongside,’ so the Paralympics are alongside the Olympics on the same courses, the same hills.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn’t need them to lead a full, empowering life.

I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.

As humans, we need to reach out for support.

If you want something bad enough and you work hard enough, anything’s possible.

The thing with prosthetic feet is you can’t have all this crazy motion, or you’d be all over the place – because it’s mechanical, and it’s outside your body.

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, ‘Don’t be scared. You are going to live an amazing life,’ and I have.

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.