Right when I was lying on the ground and saw my legs, I didn't think first, 'I'm going to die.' I was thinking, 'I'm not going to run again. I can't play basketball. I'm not going to skate.' — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
“But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere” — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
“You get only two or three important choices in life. What job you do, whom you marry. Those are big decisions. If you’re right… — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think, 'Maybe I could have a drink or two.' But then I think about it, and I just don't want to. It's… — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
I'm scared. Seeing my life being told in a movie. That is nerve-wracking. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
Knowing that I might be encouraging others by facing my own difficulties is what helps me get out of bed in the morning. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
In my eyes, there's heroes I look up to. People who saved me - my caretakers, people at Boston Medical Center. My surgeon. The… — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
I wish I wasn't the face of the victims - three lost near the finish line and hundreds injured - because then everyone would… — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
“It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived. And he’s going… — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
