Jeff Bauman

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

“But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.”

“Everyone deals with loss.”

“Sometimes I think, 'Maybe I could have a drink or two.' But then I think about it, and I just don't want to. It's just not in the cards. I know what I feel like now that I don't drink. I know what it feels like not to be hungover, trying to put my legs on.”

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

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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'm a great father.”

“I realized I had to work on all aspects of my recovery, the spiritual, mental and physical.”

“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.”