Oscar Pistorius Quotes

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.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that’s probably why I’m a bit of an exception.

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

Rio in four years; I’ve got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I’m sure I’m going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I’m going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

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.

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?