Dylan Alcott Quotes

Dylan Alcott

Profession : Tennis Player

Birth : December 4, 1990

Women can have such a great impact in business - especially women with a disability.

Dylan Alcott

There are so many great Paralympians who came before me, who didn't get the recognition they deserve, if I'm honest.

Dylan Alcott

I love winning obviously, but it's not everything to me.

Dylan Alcott

People with disability have always been viewed as second-class citizens compared to non-disabled people. It's just an unconscious bias that people have.

Dylan Alcott

As soon as you are comfortable with who you are, you start performing better, your life gets better, your relationships get better - opportunities start coming. It just so happens I became a role model.

Dylan Alcott

We have the best Paralympic sport in the world because of the integration with the able-bodied tour.

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I want to do all kinds of stuff and it's hard to do it all at once.

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I remember when I was a little kid I used to ask my parents and brother why I never saw anyone like me on TV. Kids today won't have to ask that. That means the absolute world to me.

Dylan Alcott

Some people want a job, for sure, but do you know what else some people want? They want a career. They want a leadership position.

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There's so much policy made on behalf of people with disability. You know, not inclusive of us. And that's not good enough.

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The more famous I get, the weirder people become around you.

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I don't think I try too hard. You know people who try really hard to be like 'woohoo, wacky'... I just be myself.

Dylan Alcott

Oh, I love the word 'disabled.'

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When I hated myself, I went to a tennis tournament. I was no good but I played. And when I got there, I saw a guy in a wheelchair driving a car. I'd never seen that before. And he was married with kids. I was like, 'Oh my god, I didn't know you could have kids.'

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The social aspect of sport, meeting people like me, changed my life.

Dylan Alcott

One of the things I struggled with growing up was that that I never saw anyone like me on TV or in the newspaper. If I did see someone in a wheelchair on screen it was always a road safety ad for somebody who'd had an accident and ended up in a wheelchair and their life was over. I thought, that's not my life!

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When a parent who has a little kid with a disability says they saw me and now they've found a purpose, that's the stuff that means the most to me and it's why I keep challenging the world, to show what people with a disability can really do if given an opportunity.

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Wimbledon was the last grand slam to get any wheelchair tennis in there at all. There was this idea that it was going to be slower, the players wouldn't be good enough, it wouldn't be as good to watch for spectators. That's been one of the myths that I've tried to de-code.

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I wear a lot of black, mate, I'm from Melbourne. It's cool to wear black, isn't it?

Dylan Alcott

I work in the media.

Dylan Alcott