In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty – I was not good. I didn’t know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground. Oksana Masters Read Quote
It’s hard to understand the athlete’s lifestyle. You literally eat, sleep, train. You go to training camps in the winter where there is no Internet, you can’t make phone calls. Oksana Masters Read Quote
They said if I stayed in the orphanage for another month or so, I basically would not have been able to be alive. Oksana Masters Read Quote
I was a super active kid, so I’ve always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don’t use my legs, I use more of my hands. Oksana Masters Read Quote
I definitely went through a period where I don’t want to say I hated myself, but I hated what I saw in the mirror. I would try to cover it up, and it wasn’t until I started doing sports – until after London 2012 – that I kind of started getting more of that confidence in my body and appreciating my body. Oksana Masters Read Quote
I definitely did not like my body when I first started sports. I didn’t like my body just in general as a teenager. Being a girl and a teenager with two prosthetic legs and two hands that were misshapen that had so much reconstructive surgery on them, I thought my world was over – put a zit on top of that, and then my life is completely over. Oksana Masters Read Quote
It was honestly like ‘Annie.’ One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart. Oksana Masters Read Quote
I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat. Oksana Masters Read Quote
