At just 19 years old, Megan Fisher was in a car accident that left her as a below knee amputee. Five years later, with the help of a prosthetic leg, she competed in her first XTERRA World Championship (off-road triathlon race).

In her own words,

“I don’t let things stop me anymore. I try not to use excuses, and almost more importantly, I try not to let people use excuses around me. I don’t want people to give me an excuse to quit, and I don’t want them to have an excuse to quit, because if I’m going, you better go.”

Take a look at her inspiring story below.

Here is a young woman who almost died in an accident, lost her foot, yet still refused to quit.  She is now participating in events that most able bodied men and women could only dream of completing.

Her story is a nice match for the Lance Armstrong quote below:

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”

Megan’s refusal to quit and instead keep fighting is something that we can all learn from, regardless of our own individual circumstances.