Occupation: Athlete Birth: July 28, 1958 Death: June 28, 1981
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It w….
If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope ..
It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to….
It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is..
I want to set an example that will never be forgotten..
I want to try the impossible to show that it can be done..
I do what I do for the people who believe in me, not for the jerks who don't..
It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others..
I know that you can do the impossible..
I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It ha….
Maybe that’s why I’ve made it as far as I have – 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion I’d still be in Nova Sc….
I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life..
How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?.
Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many peop….
I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hur….
I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous..
Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going..
I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try..
Dreams are made possible if you try..
Somewhere the hurting must stop..
I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to..