Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Brashear

Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I wouldn't go to sick bay. In that year, if I had gone to sick bay, they would have written me up. I didn't go to sick bay. I'd go somewhere and hide and soak my leg in a bucket of hot water with salt in it--an old remedy. Then I'd get up the next morning and run.

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.