52 Quotes by Jeff Bauman

I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.

I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing my face next to Jake Gyllenhaal's.

Hero.' I've always struggled with that word. I'm just a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

By some crazy twist of fate I was able to remember the moments leading up to the bombings, and in the end, it helped people. I'm not a hero; I did what any normal person would do.

For so long I focused on all that I had lost - my legs, my anonymity, even my freedom in a way. I couldn't jump in the car, blast some music and just get away for a bit. I couldn't play basketball with my brothers. I couldn't even get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom without making it some sort of production.

I don't like being called a hero.

She liked to drink. Some in the family want to make more of it than that like maybe she needed drinking to take the edge off, but that was the way I always saw it: Mom liked to drink.

I was a normal guy with a job at Costco, thinking about going back to school. I played sports; I hung out with my friends. I wanted to make something of myself, but I didn't know what.

Sometimes walking to the end of the street with my prosthetics feels like running a mile.