Mark Zupan Quotations

There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.

I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.

Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.

For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.

We hope to get a little viral marketing going so that people spread the word that the Simon School is an innovative place worth taking a look at,

I'm a guy in a chair. I'm just like you, except I'm sitting down.

He was very much an asshole before he was in the wheelchair.

It affords you opportunities to develop the relationships that you may have broken from when you were angry with the world.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

I said, 'Don't bolt it down. That's gonna come up in no time. We'll kick this thing in six months.' And then it's six months, and you're going up the ramp, and I'm still in the chair, and it doesn't look like I'm going to be running any marathons.

People are also working longer hours, they're more far-flung, there are more divorces and families displaced. There is a real challenge in finding leisure time. And getting it coordinated is even more problematic.

We have a choice of being cooperative or not being cooperative. If people are just going out for their own benefit, we'll end up with an inferior outcome.

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Increasing the Dialogue About Disability. Becoming disabled can happen to anyone at any time in life. It doesn't necessarily take a traumatic accident to become disabled. You can have cancer, chronic back pain or arthritis.

I did a lot of stupid (stuff). A lot of us did a lot of stupid (stuff). That's how we ended up like this.

I dream about running all the time.

Focus on what you want to do, don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. You gotta take risks at times

I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

The economic development of the world depends on human capital. India has the numbers, talent, and motivation.