life is 10% of what you’re dealt with
and 90% on how you deal with it you know
a lot people deal with our 10% and we
forget it’s only 10% you know to me my
10% of my legs
I miss my legs I can’t I can’t change
that I still have 90% to show the world
what I truly can do I still have 90% to
put a smile on my face walk out the door
with my legs and go and take on whatever
life throws at me we as human sometimes
get caught up and West really doesn’t
matter right when you can look at
yourself in the mirror right and say
this is my flaws in all this is Who I am
that’s when you start taking control of
your life and you can laugh at yourself
right and you can say he know what yeah
I am is my legs you know what I am short
I am tall I am I am this I am that
except that because only 10% of who we
are but you still have 90 percent to
show the world what you truly can do if
you can grasp on to that concept and
nothing can stuck you know I love the
fact that you know it’s now you know
what my favorite goes from Rocky is like
it’s not how hard you can hit right
it’s how hard you can get hit and keep
moving forward
all right it’s a hard you can take hits
and sometimes fall down and keep pushing
forward through the hard times and the
good end of that
I just look at my life and you know the
day I was born
doctor said I would never walk you know
be born missing one leg
congenitally everything else normally
it’s one in a million right to be born
missing two legs is unheard of
all right the day I was born the doctors
like you got to go to room 103 you’ll
believe is right like they didn’t know
what to do right so statistically all
right I shouldn’t be here right now if
you look at the facts in the numbers
right the odds I shouldn’t be running
I shouldn’t be competing I should be
winning medals but we’re not going off
facts right we’re going off hard work or
going off determination we went off
willpower and when you set your life and
trying to break into a barrier that
nobody’s has ever broken into you can’t
you can’t go off the numbers so I’m
trying to do something nobody has ever
done before so I can’t look back and
compare myself to anybody that’s got to
look forward and with that type of
mindset the only way you know you’re
doing enough if you give it all you’ve
got the only way I know that I’m pushing
forward you know I can’t go back and
compare to this guy that guy I got to
leave the track he’s hurtin I got to
finish the workout basically almost
throwing up I got I got to leave the
check to the plane where I gotta pop my
legs off and crawl to my somebody to my
car right I gotta put back on the drive
but still I gotta crawl tomorrow but you
got to set your own boundaries right my
biggest disability isn’t the fact that
I’m missing my legs my biggest
disability is the fact what people think
I cannot do the fact that I’m missing my
legs so I’ve built my whole life proving
the people what I can do I’ve been
building my whole life proving that just
because I’m missing my legs doesn’t
define
I am right just cuz I miss on the legs
doesn’t mean I can’t be the fastest in
the world who told me I could I’m not
heard it alive but who said all right
I’m setting these boundaries and not
only for me but for the kids that’s
growing up there’s a kid out there with
a disability you know or going it’s
going through some internally externally
you respond to adversity by saying I
don’t accept that
right like I’m not gonna make excuse
that’s so transformative alright because
most people take their excuse
thank you very much they go alright and
then to that you accept you accept that
life isn’t fair and in some ways use
that to your advantage
yes you have to you know what I mean
when you accept the fact life isn’t fair
and you don’t have excuses this will
happen when you have excuses it means
you’re pointing fingers right it’s their
fault or it’s his fault it’s her fault
it’s life you know to me it’s this
people’s fault right and when you’re
pointing fingers you losing your power
goes teaching you all this stuff it’s
like it’s so powerful like life is a
test yes it is a breathe every hardship
is a test
suffering is a test isn’t it most people
break yeah most people are diminished by
hardship
most people are diminished by the test
but among us there are people like you
who are created from the hardship but I
want to know so desperately and why why
you and that’s the question and I’m
saying I asked myself but no so give me
the tricks what do you do to your mind
you’re on you’re running you’re about to
vomit right and you do another rep like
what are you doing love that right what
are you telling yourself and your mind
at that moment I tell myself keep about
that mind over matter right it’s the
mind it’s not it’s not what we go that
we perceive things right I’m perceiving
the workout to being hard I’m perceiving
my body hurting and breaking down and so
you had to go into this mode to where
your mind
takes over your body right and your body
has done and it’s shutting down and it
can’t go anymore you go into a little go
to trip you got a chick yourself and
we’ve already done five of them what’s
one more right and your body’s like dude
do you not gonna how he film it right
now this is all going through my head
you know where Yeah right and I’m
talking to myself here right and you
okay okay how about this we’ll just get
going
we’ll just get started I’ll focus on the
first seven steps right let’s focus on
the first ten steps let’s just keep
going and let’s finish the race let’s
never quit never never stop then you go
into the mindset to where we can walk
away and who’s working parties all right
that’s the greatest feeling that’s what
people don’t realize it’s you have the
medals right you had the world records
and you know we have these these TV
shows where it’s amazing and you know
the fans and the followers but that’s
great I love that you know what I mean
but what makes me the greatest fill in
the world and I thought what makes me as
a person is when I’m on that less rep of
that 300 and I gotta convince my body
where it feels like I cannot go any
further right to go a little bit harder
and so when I do that I conquered that
moment right I challenged it and I
defeated it in that moment and nobody
can take that away from me
I got fought right know if I really see
that I was having an internal battle
with myself and my mind and my body when
my body was telling me I can’t write I
can’t do this I can’t do that I heard
that my whole life and when I can go on
the track and defeat and have that
internal war inside if I can beat that I
can fight that whatever is thrown at me
I’m gonna fight I’m a fighter you know I
mean that’s why I love running that’s
why I love pushing the limits right I
love being in uncomfortable positions
right because that’s when you find out
what your talents are what you’re good
at what you’re bad in what makes you
feel comfortable all your forms of fear
right when it comes to fear
I was always talk to him in tourism he
broke it down too
he said you have two people with how
they respond to fear they forget
everything right and run f.e.a.r forget
everything and run right he said you
want to be the type of person to
individual when you see fear when you
have fair you face everything and rise
and that’s the mindset I want to have
every time I’m afraid of something or
something scares me I want to face it
and I wanna wanna go toe-to-toe with
right anyway whether I win or lose
sometimes you lose right I can walk away
so you know what this is what I learned
about it but if you always live in our
lives is scared and afraid it to push
the limits right and and that’s the
thing if I was to wake up and let you
know I’m just gonna sit in my wheelchair
today almost selling the couch all right
I’m just gonna collect a check you know
what I mean
and her government gonna push I’m not
only had pull my legs it society you’ll
be okay with that right society expects
expects that right and even though I’m
not bothering nobody
all right I’m not dying dude I’m not
living I living if I do that
and the time is now we dealt with a lot
of things right we dealt with racism we
dealt with sexism you know what I mean
the a da accident we’re now we’re facing
disability the time is now we’ve got a
look at ourselves and say no excuses
right we all deal with demons everybody
does right everybody has problems right
when you can conquer those problems say
I have a problem I want to face it and
rise I face it all we can get things
done class control who can stop you
right and every day that I wake up I
said I want to be one of the fastest men
in the world
some people laugh some people joke some
people don’t even believe me I can look
in their face like do I’m five little
imp ease it like this right but I’m dead
serious
even though if they don’t see it I see
that’s a statement okay you know to me
it’s about manifestation dude you you
you put it you put that out there in the
world that’s what people that’s the
beautiful part about it right every day
that I wake up right I believe I’m going
to walk point blade I believe that I’m
gonna go out there and run I’m in
invested out there into the world I
expected it right I’ll put that out
there every single day I’m gonna walk
I’m gonna do this I’m gonna do that so
that’s out there in the world right you
can’t take that back
it’s out there so what’s gonna happen
mean once it’s out there you want to
start conforming and doing things to
figure out how I’m going to walk how am
I going to run I believe that I can be
one of the fastest men in the world so
I’m gonna start conforming to that so
I’m in those 300 workouts alright put
that out there then I’m gonna be the
fastest man in the world I want people
just laugh smile shake their head and
disbelief on how much I’ll fall in my
life and I regardless of how many knows
that I hear number I heard a lot I’m
gonna hear born right as many as many as
I hear that you just need to hear a few
yeses and I hear that yes every day that
I wake up and myself and I that yes when
I meet people like you right and and I
have the same mindset in the same vision
you know what I mean we’re aligned and
in the same path everything happens you
know what I mean I just feel like this
is who I am
it’s how I’m structured I couldn’t in if
I didn’t live this life the way I live
it
kill me I have to sit on the couch every
day and and just wonder what’s gonna
happen out there in the world you know
me I wonder what I could do if I had the
opportunity to that work that would earn
me I have to get out there and try it I
have to get out there and do it whether
I succeed or whether I failed I know I
can’t walk away said I gave it my all
and that’s the greatest feeling in the
world god that’s the greatest feeling in
the world
I’m getting so many tools in life but
trying to come in and Olympian and try
to come along the fastest men in the
world and hopefully you know what I mean
once it’s all said and done I can use
the tools you know when I first started
running I was a little kid then you know
I was just getting started I didn’t
never run in front of 80,000 people
before and I’ve ever been on the
international stage before I’ve never
even traveled before right and there you
left the country I never left Tennessee
right before I write my first time in
California was cause of running all
right like I was just this little
country boy from Tennessee right eating
ribs and and collard greens right and
because I wanted to become a runner born
without legs has allowed me to see the
world I was allowed me to be on a show
like this like come on man like I’m
gaining tools tools in life and so when
I’m done running I will be able to look
back soon I learned this about myself I
learnt that about myself right and and I
think that’s the great part of giving it
your all so you can figure out what
you’re good at and what you’re bad at
and what you can do and what you can’t
do and when you find out what you can’t
do then try to figure out how you can do
it right that’s the only way all right
but if you’re sitting back and
complacent and scared and afraid to
challenge life gonna challenge yourself
it’s a scary place to be in that’s a
place that I know I don’t want to be a
nun no you don’t want to be in it
very true yeah what would you teach too
if you had a child what are three
powerful lessons that you’d want to make
sure they learn oh man
one is it’s just gratitude and humility
you know what I mean that’s one thing
that’s really helped me in my life and
just being thankful for what I have
don’t leave before the miracle happens
to be proud of who you are from top to
bottom
be proud live it express it and the last
it’s never kid lo never ever give up
only way you can fail is if you give up
and the only person like I stop you from
quitting is you yourself that person in
the mirror you know I mean people can
derail your your your main objective
they can maybe be rail right your
mission the only person that can have
you stop fighting is that person inside
of you how do you keep fighting like
when it’s really nasty hard yeah do you
have a mantra or anything that you say
or when it when when it gets bad right
first
think about the people who sacrifice for
me I worked hard for me right family
members you know the people in my life
now I mean they they believed in me all
right so I can’t I can’t give up on them
right and then I look back and think
about everything I’ve been through so
far in my life right when it gets tough
I’m just like I can’t push no father
right
it goes back to playing those mind
tricks again yeah for those mind you’re
just like you playing mind tricks on the
track gonna have those mind tricks with
yourself and look at everything you’ve
done it’ll even made it this far why I
quit now
why stop now you don’t did all this why
do I quit now it’s be a waste of time
right and the last is just being
thankful man cuz I know it could be way
what he worries so I’ll be selfish to
give up that be rude of me disrespectful
I’d be so disrespectful to the kids that
are watching the kids are the watching
me to the to the kids we all have what I
have right there’s kids in other
countries who would wish and hope and
pray and beg to have legs like these and
they have opportunities that have been
it’s so disrespectful man in fact if I
gave up I’d be rude right
I’d be so rude now that’s not what I
want to be that’s not what I want to
stand for you know I always think about
my legacy you know what I want to stand
for it if I’m gonna be the man I want to
be and I feel like I want to be the man
that I’m meant to be
I gotta keep fighting who is the man
that you’re meant to be
man the man I’m meant to be somebody to
change lives somebody changed perception
perspectives right I want to be the guy
who me somebody they thought one way
their whole life right about a
conversation they had with me or our
interview they seen with me
their whole mindset has changed right
they thought they couldn’t do nothing
right with their lives so they thought
they wasn’t good enough cuz we always
fight that that internal demon and
you’re not good enough alright when
somebody thinks that hope they can see
my story and benefit from it right and
they say you know what if Blake can do
it that I sure can do it as well I’m
trying to be the fastest man in the
world and I have no legs that’s a double
entendre like what but it doesn’t make
sense right it isn’t it isn’t how’s that
in the same sentence step outside the
box set your own goals rise to the
occasion and fight for your dreams and
that’s so that’s what I want to stand
it’s a pretty good legacy yeah talk to
me about so you’re a kid people making
fun of you you’re terrified to show your
legs like I know what it’s like to be a
kid
obviously right that that’s hard like if
people turned on you and we’re picking
on you like that’s that’s an emotional
death sentence yeah so how did you go
from that negative spiral to like hey
one day finally I’m gonna wear shorts
and be proud of exactly who I am
um it was it was a few things you know I
mean I learned you know when I was got
you know I mean fun I was made fun of as
a kid you know I mean sometimes I stung
a little bit right he would hurt or I
get so awkward and it’s uncomfortable to
the point like you know what how about I
just make better jokes you know to me or
how about just accepting laugh with them
right and and I embraced it you know
what I mean I’m over it growing up
elementary school middle school I would
turn my leg backwards walk through the
hallways right or I’ll take my legs off
and crawl on the teacher’s desk and grab
her you know to me I would embrace it
and once I embraced it it made people
around me feel a lot more comfortable
right I accepted it I had to come to
realization wherever I go whatever I do
I am going to be
wherever I see they’re gonna look at me
twice wherever and whether I’m in
ginseng York California I’m gonna get to
double-team so he goes back to it I’m
gonna sit and cry be upset and about it
I’m gonna do something about it there
was just that moment you know I realize
I just thought I’m gonna be I’m gonna
push for it I’m or accept the fact that
me some other guy like give a looked at
right but as we grow up we realize
that’s the worst thing you can ever
happen to us is being said mediocre or
being part of God we were always wanting
you want to stand out as an adult
so you get everybody’s attention right I
didn’t have a choice they have a choice
I was gonna stand out from the time I
left the house as a kid to now and to be
honest I’m thankful for that because it
allowed me to learn certain things and
gain certain tools for me to be the
person I am today so at dinner today I’m
thankful that I’m missing my legs I can
honestly look at you to say that
I’m thankful that was born without legs [Music]
and 90% on how you deal with it you know
a lot people deal with our 10% and we
forget it’s only 10% you know to me my
10% of my legs
I miss my legs I can’t I can’t change
that I still have 90% to show the world
what I truly can do I still have 90% to
put a smile on my face walk out the door
with my legs and go and take on whatever
life throws at me we as human sometimes
get caught up and West really doesn’t
matter right when you can look at
yourself in the mirror right and say
this is my flaws in all this is Who I am
that’s when you start taking control of
your life and you can laugh at yourself
right and you can say he know what yeah
I am is my legs you know what I am short
I am tall I am I am this I am that
except that because only 10% of who we
are but you still have 90 percent to
show the world what you truly can do if
you can grasp on to that concept and
nothing can stuck you know I love the
fact that you know it’s now you know
what my favorite goes from Rocky is like
it’s not how hard you can hit right
it’s how hard you can get hit and keep
moving forward
all right it’s a hard you can take hits
and sometimes fall down and keep pushing
forward through the hard times and the
good end of that
I just look at my life and you know the
day I was born
doctor said I would never walk you know
be born missing one leg
congenitally everything else normally
it’s one in a million right to be born
missing two legs is unheard of
all right the day I was born the doctors
like you got to go to room 103 you’ll
believe is right like they didn’t know
what to do right so statistically all
right I shouldn’t be here right now if
you look at the facts in the numbers
right the odds I shouldn’t be running
I shouldn’t be competing I should be
winning medals but we’re not going off
facts right we’re going off hard work or
going off determination we went off
willpower and when you set your life and
trying to break into a barrier that
nobody’s has ever broken into you can’t
you can’t go off the numbers so I’m
trying to do something nobody has ever
done before so I can’t look back and
compare myself to anybody that’s got to
look forward and with that type of
mindset the only way you know you’re
doing enough if you give it all you’ve
got the only way I know that I’m pushing
forward you know I can’t go back and
compare to this guy that guy I got to
leave the track he’s hurtin I got to
finish the workout basically almost
throwing up I got I got to leave the
check to the plane where I gotta pop my
legs off and crawl to my somebody to my
car right I gotta put back on the drive
but still I gotta crawl tomorrow but you
got to set your own boundaries right my
biggest disability isn’t the fact that
I’m missing my legs my biggest
disability is the fact what people think
I cannot do the fact that I’m missing my
legs so I’ve built my whole life proving
the people what I can do I’ve been
building my whole life proving that just
because I’m missing my legs doesn’t
define
I am right just cuz I miss on the legs
doesn’t mean I can’t be the fastest in
the world who told me I could I’m not
heard it alive but who said all right
I’m setting these boundaries and not
only for me but for the kids that’s
growing up there’s a kid out there with
a disability you know or going it’s
going through some internally externally
you respond to adversity by saying I
don’t accept that
right like I’m not gonna make excuse
that’s so transformative alright because
most people take their excuse
thank you very much they go alright and
then to that you accept you accept that
life isn’t fair and in some ways use
that to your advantage
yes you have to you know what I mean
when you accept the fact life isn’t fair
and you don’t have excuses this will
happen when you have excuses it means
you’re pointing fingers right it’s their
fault or it’s his fault it’s her fault
it’s life you know to me it’s this
people’s fault right and when you’re
pointing fingers you losing your power
goes teaching you all this stuff it’s
like it’s so powerful like life is a
test yes it is a breathe every hardship
is a test
suffering is a test isn’t it most people
break yeah most people are diminished by
hardship
most people are diminished by the test
but among us there are people like you
who are created from the hardship but I
want to know so desperately and why why
you and that’s the question and I’m
saying I asked myself but no so give me
the tricks what do you do to your mind
you’re on you’re running you’re about to
vomit right and you do another rep like
what are you doing love that right what
are you telling yourself and your mind
at that moment I tell myself keep about
that mind over matter right it’s the
mind it’s not it’s not what we go that
we perceive things right I’m perceiving
the workout to being hard I’m perceiving
my body hurting and breaking down and so
you had to go into this mode to where
your mind
takes over your body right and your body
has done and it’s shutting down and it
can’t go anymore you go into a little go
to trip you got a chick yourself and
we’ve already done five of them what’s
one more right and your body’s like dude
do you not gonna how he film it right
now this is all going through my head
you know where Yeah right and I’m
talking to myself here right and you
okay okay how about this we’ll just get
going
we’ll just get started I’ll focus on the
first seven steps right let’s focus on
the first ten steps let’s just keep
going and let’s finish the race let’s
never quit never never stop then you go
into the mindset to where we can walk
away and who’s working parties all right
that’s the greatest feeling that’s what
people don’t realize it’s you have the
medals right you had the world records
and you know we have these these TV
shows where it’s amazing and you know
the fans and the followers but that’s
great I love that you know what I mean
but what makes me the greatest fill in
the world and I thought what makes me as
a person is when I’m on that less rep of
that 300 and I gotta convince my body
where it feels like I cannot go any
further right to go a little bit harder
and so when I do that I conquered that
moment right I challenged it and I
defeated it in that moment and nobody
can take that away from me
I got fought right know if I really see
that I was having an internal battle
with myself and my mind and my body when
my body was telling me I can’t write I
can’t do this I can’t do that I heard
that my whole life and when I can go on
the track and defeat and have that
internal war inside if I can beat that I
can fight that whatever is thrown at me
I’m gonna fight I’m a fighter you know I
mean that’s why I love running that’s
why I love pushing the limits right I
love being in uncomfortable positions
right because that’s when you find out
what your talents are what you’re good
at what you’re bad in what makes you
feel comfortable all your forms of fear
right when it comes to fear
I was always talk to him in tourism he
broke it down too
he said you have two people with how
they respond to fear they forget
everything right and run f.e.a.r forget
everything and run right he said you
want to be the type of person to
individual when you see fear when you
have fair you face everything and rise
and that’s the mindset I want to have
every time I’m afraid of something or
something scares me I want to face it
and I wanna wanna go toe-to-toe with
right anyway whether I win or lose
sometimes you lose right I can walk away
so you know what this is what I learned
about it but if you always live in our
lives is scared and afraid it to push
the limits right and and that’s the
thing if I was to wake up and let you
know I’m just gonna sit in my wheelchair
today almost selling the couch all right
I’m just gonna collect a check you know
what I mean
and her government gonna push I’m not
only had pull my legs it society you’ll
be okay with that right society expects
expects that right and even though I’m
not bothering nobody
all right I’m not dying dude I’m not
living I living if I do that
and the time is now we dealt with a lot
of things right we dealt with racism we
dealt with sexism you know what I mean
the a da accident we’re now we’re facing
disability the time is now we’ve got a
look at ourselves and say no excuses
right we all deal with demons everybody
does right everybody has problems right
when you can conquer those problems say
I have a problem I want to face it and
rise I face it all we can get things
done class control who can stop you
right and every day that I wake up I
said I want to be one of the fastest men
in the world
some people laugh some people joke some
people don’t even believe me I can look
in their face like do I’m five little
imp ease it like this right but I’m dead
serious
even though if they don’t see it I see
that’s a statement okay you know to me
it’s about manifestation dude you you
you put it you put that out there in the
world that’s what people that’s the
beautiful part about it right every day
that I wake up right I believe I’m going
to walk point blade I believe that I’m
gonna go out there and run I’m in
invested out there into the world I
expected it right I’ll put that out
there every single day I’m gonna walk
I’m gonna do this I’m gonna do that so
that’s out there in the world right you
can’t take that back
it’s out there so what’s gonna happen
mean once it’s out there you want to
start conforming and doing things to
figure out how I’m going to walk how am
I going to run I believe that I can be
one of the fastest men in the world so
I’m gonna start conforming to that so
I’m in those 300 workouts alright put
that out there then I’m gonna be the
fastest man in the world I want people
just laugh smile shake their head and
disbelief on how much I’ll fall in my
life and I regardless of how many knows
that I hear number I heard a lot I’m
gonna hear born right as many as many as
I hear that you just need to hear a few
yeses and I hear that yes every day that
I wake up and myself and I that yes when
I meet people like you right and and I
have the same mindset in the same vision
you know what I mean we’re aligned and
in the same path everything happens you
know what I mean I just feel like this
is who I am
it’s how I’m structured I couldn’t in if
I didn’t live this life the way I live
it
kill me I have to sit on the couch every
day and and just wonder what’s gonna
happen out there in the world you know
me I wonder what I could do if I had the
opportunity to that work that would earn
me I have to get out there and try it I
have to get out there and do it whether
I succeed or whether I failed I know I
can’t walk away said I gave it my all
and that’s the greatest feeling in the
world god that’s the greatest feeling in
the world
I’m getting so many tools in life but
trying to come in and Olympian and try
to come along the fastest men in the
world and hopefully you know what I mean
once it’s all said and done I can use
the tools you know when I first started
running I was a little kid then you know
I was just getting started I didn’t
never run in front of 80,000 people
before and I’ve ever been on the
international stage before I’ve never
even traveled before right and there you
left the country I never left Tennessee
right before I write my first time in
California was cause of running all
right like I was just this little
country boy from Tennessee right eating
ribs and and collard greens right and
because I wanted to become a runner born
without legs has allowed me to see the
world I was allowed me to be on a show
like this like come on man like I’m
gaining tools tools in life and so when
I’m done running I will be able to look
back soon I learned this about myself I
learnt that about myself right and and I
think that’s the great part of giving it
your all so you can figure out what
you’re good at and what you’re bad at
and what you can do and what you can’t
do and when you find out what you can’t
do then try to figure out how you can do
it right that’s the only way all right
but if you’re sitting back and
complacent and scared and afraid to
challenge life gonna challenge yourself
it’s a scary place to be in that’s a
place that I know I don’t want to be a
nun no you don’t want to be in it
very true yeah what would you teach too
if you had a child what are three
powerful lessons that you’d want to make
sure they learn oh man
one is it’s just gratitude and humility
you know what I mean that’s one thing
that’s really helped me in my life and
just being thankful for what I have
don’t leave before the miracle happens
to be proud of who you are from top to
bottom
be proud live it express it and the last
it’s never kid lo never ever give up
only way you can fail is if you give up
and the only person like I stop you from
quitting is you yourself that person in
the mirror you know I mean people can
derail your your your main objective
they can maybe be rail right your
mission the only person that can have
you stop fighting is that person inside
of you how do you keep fighting like
when it’s really nasty hard yeah do you
have a mantra or anything that you say
or when it when when it gets bad right
first
think about the people who sacrifice for
me I worked hard for me right family
members you know the people in my life
now I mean they they believed in me all
right so I can’t I can’t give up on them
right and then I look back and think
about everything I’ve been through so
far in my life right when it gets tough
I’m just like I can’t push no father
right
it goes back to playing those mind
tricks again yeah for those mind you’re
just like you playing mind tricks on the
track gonna have those mind tricks with
yourself and look at everything you’ve
done it’ll even made it this far why I
quit now
why stop now you don’t did all this why
do I quit now it’s be a waste of time
right and the last is just being
thankful man cuz I know it could be way
what he worries so I’ll be selfish to
give up that be rude of me disrespectful
I’d be so disrespectful to the kids that
are watching the kids are the watching
me to the to the kids we all have what I
have right there’s kids in other
countries who would wish and hope and
pray and beg to have legs like these and
they have opportunities that have been
it’s so disrespectful man in fact if I
gave up I’d be rude right
I’d be so rude now that’s not what I
want to be that’s not what I want to
stand for you know I always think about
my legacy you know what I want to stand
for it if I’m gonna be the man I want to
be and I feel like I want to be the man
that I’m meant to be
I gotta keep fighting who is the man
that you’re meant to be
man the man I’m meant to be somebody to
change lives somebody changed perception
perspectives right I want to be the guy
who me somebody they thought one way
their whole life right about a
conversation they had with me or our
interview they seen with me
their whole mindset has changed right
they thought they couldn’t do nothing
right with their lives so they thought
they wasn’t good enough cuz we always
fight that that internal demon and
you’re not good enough alright when
somebody thinks that hope they can see
my story and benefit from it right and
they say you know what if Blake can do
it that I sure can do it as well I’m
trying to be the fastest man in the
world and I have no legs that’s a double
entendre like what but it doesn’t make
sense right it isn’t it isn’t how’s that
in the same sentence step outside the
box set your own goals rise to the
occasion and fight for your dreams and
that’s so that’s what I want to stand
it’s a pretty good legacy yeah talk to
me about so you’re a kid people making
fun of you you’re terrified to show your
legs like I know what it’s like to be a
kid
obviously right that that’s hard like if
people turned on you and we’re picking
on you like that’s that’s an emotional
death sentence yeah so how did you go
from that negative spiral to like hey
one day finally I’m gonna wear shorts
and be proud of exactly who I am
um it was it was a few things you know I
mean I learned you know when I was got
you know I mean fun I was made fun of as
a kid you know I mean sometimes I stung
a little bit right he would hurt or I
get so awkward and it’s uncomfortable to
the point like you know what how about I
just make better jokes you know to me or
how about just accepting laugh with them
right and and I embraced it you know
what I mean I’m over it growing up
elementary school middle school I would
turn my leg backwards walk through the
hallways right or I’ll take my legs off
and crawl on the teacher’s desk and grab
her you know to me I would embrace it
and once I embraced it it made people
around me feel a lot more comfortable
right I accepted it I had to come to
realization wherever I go whatever I do
I am going to be
wherever I see they’re gonna look at me
twice wherever and whether I’m in
ginseng York California I’m gonna get to
double-team so he goes back to it I’m
gonna sit and cry be upset and about it
I’m gonna do something about it there
was just that moment you know I realize
I just thought I’m gonna be I’m gonna
push for it I’m or accept the fact that
me some other guy like give a looked at
right but as we grow up we realize
that’s the worst thing you can ever
happen to us is being said mediocre or
being part of God we were always wanting
you want to stand out as an adult
so you get everybody’s attention right I
didn’t have a choice they have a choice
I was gonna stand out from the time I
left the house as a kid to now and to be
honest I’m thankful for that because it
allowed me to learn certain things and
gain certain tools for me to be the
person I am today so at dinner today I’m
thankful that I’m missing my legs I can
honestly look at you to say that
I’m thankful that was born without legs [Music]
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