Quote

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

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

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

The Paralympic Games actually turned my whole mentality around about disability. When you're in the Paralympic athletes' village and there are 4,000 disabled people, you stop seeing disability. Totally.

The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

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.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.