I just want to get to the places I can't get in the wheelchair, you know? I want to stand up.
Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.
I'm doing great, and I just gotta keep going.
I'm just glad I'm still here.
I don't know, I'm just a weird person like that, I'm kind of sensitive and I feel bad for people that hurt other people 'cause it's just awful.
My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different.
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.
I don't like being called a hero.
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.
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.
I consider myself really lucky every single day. To the point where I feel guilty a lot because I have so much and so many other people don't have what I have.
I just want to be a good dad.
I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.
I got myself into trouble. I was drinking and partying a lot and it caught up with me.
I'm scared. Seeing my life being told in a movie. That is nerve-wracking.
At the end of the day I just want to be a normal guy, hang out with my daughter, go to school, and work on prosthetics.
Even in the ambulance ride I was trying to say something, trying to say, like, 'I knew who did it, I knew what went on.' And then I think they were kind of thrown back by that. They were like, 'What? You know what went on? You know what happened?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I saw the guy.'
