52 Quotes by Jeff Bauman

In my eyes, there's heroes I look up to. People who saved me - my caretakers, people at Boston Medical Center. My surgeon. The people that pulled me off that ground, who pulled me out. Those are my heroes. The police. The paramedics. Those are the true heroes.

Why sit, be negative and be sad and depressed? You got to kind of push everything to the side and just focus on just getting better.

My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.

Sometimes I don't fully accept it. It's tough. I miss doing old things. I miss shooting hoops with my friends.

I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.

I got myself into trouble. I was drinking and partying a lot and it caught up with me.

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.

Even now, a year later, people ask me about the Wheelchair Photo: what do I think about it? Does it bother me? The honest answer: I don't think about it. I glanced at the photo once, about a week after the bombing. I knew immediately I never wanted to look at it again.

I have so much work to do every day to get back to my normal life that I can't afford to be angry, even at the bombers. I can't keep looking backward.