Tanni Grey-Thompson : (2) " The thing most disabled people cite when they are seriously or terminally ill is not the pain, not the suffering – it’s being a burden. " - Tanni Grey-Thompson " I wouldn’t have had a sporting career if it hadn’t been for the volunteers who agreed to coach me, as a teenager, growing up in south Wales, at a time when others were telling me that wheelchair racing wasn’t really athletics. " - Tanni Grey-Thompson