Dylan Alcott

Tennis Player

1990-12-04

Quotes by Dylan Alcott

• I get sent a lot of stuff about stem cell research but I've never bothered with it because I'm happy with how I am.

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• I sat at home for two years of my life eating junk food, playing video games, embarrassed to go to school or leave the house because I wasn't proud of the person that I was.

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• 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.

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

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• When I first played tennis... I was 11 or 12... and the craziest bit about that tennis tournament is that I had never seen someone in a wheelchair drive a car. They were all driving.

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• People used to stare at me when I was growing up because I was in a wheelchair, and I hated it. Now they're staring at me because they know me. How amazing is that? It's 'Oh, that's Dylan!' Not, 'Oh, there's a guy in a wheelchair.'

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• 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.

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• I love the Australian Open, but the mecca of tennis is Wimbledon. The Royals are there, everyone's in white. It's just so cool, you can smell the roses when you're on the court.

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• As a kid with disability, if you told me anybody in a wheelchair, let alone myself, would be Australian of the Year later, I would tell you to get stuffed.

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