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British Wheelchair Sports Foundation - The national organisation for wheelchair sport. Information, contacts and regular updates on wheelchair and disabled sport. Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.
Wheelchair Tennis - Official site provided by ITF, world governing body of tennis. Results, reports, rankings, tournament calendar, and player information, plus a history of the growth of the sport.
The Back-Up Trust - Arranges outdoor sports activity courses for those paralysed through spinal cord injury. Get involved, be a buddy, courses and links.
Sportability - A year round programme of activities that get people out of the wheelchair and into the action. Activities range from falconry to adrenalin sports, includes regional sections.
Wheelchair Adventures - Information on spinal injury sports of all kinds. Articles and advice on sports including skiing, handbiking, waterskiing, paragliding and sailing.
The British Wheelchair Bowls Association - Competitions, tournaments, adapted wheelchairs suitable for the game and contact details.
British Ex-Services Wheelchair Sports Association - Encourages rehabilitation through sport and sports medicine, and the highest standards of competition for a variety of sports. Training weekends, meetings and contacts.
Get Kids Going - Charity supplying sports wheelchairs for children and young adults, also encourages participation and helps with the design and development of wheelchairs. Highlights the costs of specialist chairs and appeals for help.
The British Tennis Foundation - Wheelchair Tennis - Introduction, development of the sport, eligibility, classification and getting started as well as player profiles, world rankings and results.
Unique Sport - Company producing training equipment for wheelchair users plus videos for wheelchair, disabled, rehabilitation and martial arts exercises. Online shop and case studies.
Trail Orienteering - Orienteering designed so that people with disabilities can compete on equal terms. Articles, events and rules, plus details of a permanent Manchester course.
British Wheelchair Table Tennis Association - Official site of the British Wheelchair Table Tennis Association. Provides some details about the organization and contact information.
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The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Wheelchair Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Wheelchair Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Wheelchair If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Wheelchair If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Wheelchair I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Wheelchair Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wheelchair Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke Wheelchair "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Wheelchair Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Wheelchair Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Wheelchair Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner Wheelchair I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Wheelchair "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Wheelchair My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Wheelchair His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Wheelchair With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Wheelchair
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