Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.
Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.
Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.
Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.
I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
