Jeff Bauman Quotes

Jeff Bauman

Profession : Author

Birth : January 2, 1986

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.

Jeff Bauman

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

Jeff Bauman

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.

Jeff Bauman

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.

Jeff Bauman

I don't like being called a hero.

Jeff Bauman

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.

Jeff Bauman

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.

Jeff Bauman

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

Jeff Bauman

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

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.

Jeff Bauman

I just want to be a good dad.

Jeff Bauman

I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.

Jeff Bauman

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

Jeff Bauman

I'm scared. Seeing my life being told in a movie. That is nerve-wracking.

Jeff Bauman

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.

Jeff Bauman

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.'

Jeff Bauman

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.

Jeff Bauman

I really want to do something great. I want to be out there, I want to help people.

Jeff Bauman

Everyone kept saying, 'The terrorists didn't win. You won! We won! You survived!' That's just weird to me. Nobody wins in these situations. I don't see winners and losers in tragic events.

Jeff Bauman

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