Oscar Pistorius Quotes

I've Been Followed Home Late At Night. I've Been Shot At On The Highway.

I Have A Phenomenal Team Behind Me Who Have Helped Get Me Here And I, Along With Them, Will Now Put Everything We Can Into The Final Few Weeks Of Preparations Before The Olympic Games, Where I Am Aiming To Race Well, Work Well Through The Rounds, Post Good Times And Maybe Even A Personal Best Time On The Biggest Stage Of Them All.

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?

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.

I Am Also Hugely Excited To Then Be Competing To Defend My Three Paralympic Titles At The Paralympic Games. I Believe We Will See Some Amazing Times Posted And I Am Very Much Looking Forward To What Will Be An Incredible Olympics And Paralympics In London.

I Wasn't Happy With My Performance At The World Championships In Daegu. I Had An Unbelievable Race In The Heats, But Misjudged The Semi And Finished Last.

If The Legs Did Provide Such An Advantage That Some Of The People Are Claiming They Did, Then There Would Be A Lot More Amputees Using The Exact Same Prosthetic Legs I Have, Running The Exact Same Times I Have - And That's Not The Case.

I Still Find It Strange, I Suppose, When I Say To Someone, 'can You Just Pass Me My Leg?' But I Don't Ever Think About My Disability.

Putting On My Legs Is Like Putting On My Shoes. I Understand That's How Some People Might Think Differently, But I Hope That In London, Their Perceptions Open Up.

Being Disabled Doesn't Have To Be A Disadvantage.

Everyone Has Setbacks. I'm No Different. I Happen To Have No Legs. That's Pretty Much The Fact.

I Don't Want To Be Competing In A Sport Where I Feel That I'm Here Not On My Talent And My Hard Work But Because Of A Piece Of Equipment.