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.”

“I'm doing great, and I just gotta keep going.”

“I don't drink and I don't party. And I take care of myself mentally, and that's huge.”

“I was still conscious when I was being transported from the blast site to the hospital.”

“I see my family every day and I'm starting my own family now. I'm very thankful and grateful and there's nothing but positivity and love in my life.”

“I wish I wasn't the face of the victims - three lost near the finish line and hundreds injured - because then everyone would forget about me, and I could recover in peace, and at my own pace.”

“I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have bad days, days when I just don't want to do anything. Just kind of want to lay in bed.”