Quotes from Amy Purdy

I'm really motivated by music, and I love dancing, even if it's just by myself in my room or if it's going out with my friends.

I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.

What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

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.

The human foot has bones and muscles and can balance back and forth. If you step and you maybe make a little mistake, your foot can compensate. But if I step in the wrong spot, my foot isn't going to compensate because it's just one piece of carbon fiber.

I'm a big oatmeal fan. For my every-morning breakfast, I will do oatmeal with cinnamon, goat's milk or even butter, with apples and raisins, and then I'll maybe do some eggs, say two poached eggs with that.

As for how do I respond to those who want to throw stones, well, I don't.

Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.

I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?

I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.

I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.

I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski resorts close to Las Vegas, up in Mount Charleston or Brian Head, so I grew up skiing and snowboarding.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

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

I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.

I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.

My legs haven't disabled me. If anything, they've enabled me.