Dylan Alcott Quotes

Dylan Alcott

Profession : Tennis Player

Birth : December 4, 1990

There are so many things we can do to make sure they get those opportunities. People with disability are ready to go - it's you non-disabled people who need to start changing your unconscious biases.

Dylan Alcott

I missed years of birthdays, celebrations and simple moments, so I'm enjoying being able to be more present, now I'm a washed-up athlete.

Dylan Alcott

I was in Thailand with my first girlfriend, Chelsea, and this guy was hitting on her, and he tried to kiss her. And he was like, 'oh, I thought that was just your sister or your carer.' Like, how could a guy in a wheelchair have a good-looking, able-bodied girlfriend?

Dylan Alcott

I want to be a big mainstay in the media and want to do more acting. I'd also love my own talk show or radio show in the U.S.

Dylan Alcott

I was born with a tumour wrapped around my spinal cord that was cut out when I was only a couple of days old.

Dylan Alcott

I've known nothing but having a disability.

Dylan Alcott

Starlight Foundation gave me a wish to go away for a trip, which was really amazing at the time, and Variety Children's Charity gave me a wheelchair.

Dylan Alcott

There are people out there with disabilities doing amazing things but unfortunately they don't get the chance to show off - they don't get out of the house and get amongst the general public, and when they do, often the public doesn't know how to handle it.

Dylan Alcott

If I could take a magic pill that would mean I'm not in a wheelchair anymore, you couldn't pay me enough to take it - the Dylan in the wheelchair is the same as the Dylan without.

Dylan Alcott

I think standing ovations are one of the most ironic things in the world, by the way. But I'll take them, without a doubt.

Dylan Alcott

I remember being at the Paralympics and I was listening to all my teammates speak and I've never felt more redundant in my life. They were all advocates and I knew they were like that, but they've just never been given the same platform that someone like myself or Kurt Fearnley, or whoever, has been given.

Dylan Alcott

I've got full faith in the Australian public that they'll get behind athletes with a disability - and not just to get the warm fuzzies.

Dylan Alcott

A bill that protects some people from discrimination but indirectly discriminates another group is a crap bill. It needs to go in the bin the best of times.

Dylan Alcott

In terms of Paralympians there's not many more awesome than Kurt Fearnley.

Dylan Alcott

People are always stopping me and asking for photos.

Dylan Alcott

I get so many great opportunities to lift the representation of disabled people and I try to take them all.

Dylan Alcott

I remember being a 17-year-old wheelchair basketballer at the Paralympics. I just wanted to beat everybody, but I also wanted to do it in a good way, be a nice person.

Dylan Alcott

I don't want to play able-body tennis. I don't want to go to the Olympics. I don't want to be out there with Novak and Medvedev. I want to be me. I'm proud to be me.

Dylan Alcott

I'm proud to play wheelchair tennis.

Dylan Alcott

I am easily the luckiest person and one of the luckiest Paralympians.

Dylan Alcott