Dylan Alcott

“I am easily the luckiest person and one of the luckiest Paralympians.”

“I can't tell you how much I struggled after the golden slam. I had actual depression. I hadn't seen my family - it was the biggest moment of my life, and I'm in a hotel.”

“Luckily I just know how to string two words together.”

“You know what, there are multiple streams of diversity: LGBTQI, gender equality, your race. All these streams of diversity had prejudices in the past, but a lot of them are getting a lot better. But the one you never hear about is disability.”

“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.”

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

“Early '90s hip hop is my thing.”

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

“That's why I love the Paralympics. For two weeks, it's the big show.”

“I think you can do anything in this life whether you're in a wheelchair or not. I go to festivals, nightclubs, I travel the world, I'm loving my work on Triple J.”

“The last song I listen to before every match is 'Protect Ya Neck,' always has been.”

“I could win 20 Grand Slams and I'd be happy, but I'd regret not doing what I love the most, which is changing perceptions of disability, which broadcasting helps.”

“I questioned whether anyone would love me because I'm in a wheelchair.”

“When I started being authentically me, everything started to change. Everyone thinks we've got to be someone we're not, but we don't.”

“Sport has really given me that platform and I love it, but now that I've got that I want to do it for everyone else with a disability.”

“My purpose is changing perceptions so people with disability, people like me can get out there and live the lives that they deserve to live.”

“For people like me with a disability, the unconscious bias is a lack of expectation of what you can do, negative perception, and negative stigmas around having a disability that you are broken, less capable, un-dateable, and most importantly unemployable, and that you can't do it as well as an able-bodied person.”

“A G.O.A.T, to me, is not who wins the most grand slams. It's about what you say, what you stand for and your purpose.”

“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.”

“If you said to me, 'Let's walk to the shop,' you'd realise what you'd said and feel bad. But it's just language. I say I'm going for a run, or for a walk to the shops, or that I'm going to jump upstairs.”