Oscar Pistorius Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Oscar Pistorius quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 38 year old South African athlete born on Nov 22, 1986.
“I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.”
“My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'”
“When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.”
“I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.”
“Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!”
“I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.”
“Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.”
“Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?”
“The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.”
“I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.”
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