"For most Olympic athletes‚ their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians‚ training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference."

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Source : "Paralympics: 'since I lost my limbs I can see the true heroism of the competitors'" by Giles Duley, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

Giles Duley

#Struggle Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Differences Quotes

“The wind is knocked out of me; and when I look up, I see Nine spitting blood out. He's grinning. "Are you crazy?" I ask. "You're enjoying this?" "I've been locked up for over a year. This is the best day of my life!”
“He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.”
“Women are always angsting over things. Guys donâ€™t do that.”
“I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.”
“I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later”
“Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.”
“She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.”
“Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.”

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