Amy Purdy Quotes

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame in my dream, I think. I'd have these dreams that I am running and launching myself, and I look down and see that I have prosthetics. I have a lot of those, where I do great, amazing things with my prosthetics.

~ Amy Purdy

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

~ Amy Purdy

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

~ Amy Purdy

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding.

~ Amy Purdy

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.

~ Amy Purdy

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

~ Amy Purdy

I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.

~ Amy Purdy

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.

~ Amy Purdy

You don't have to be positive all the time.

~ Amy Purdy

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

~ Amy Purdy

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

~ Amy Purdy

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.

~ Amy Purdy