Carl Brashear Professions : Sailor Born : January 19, 1931 Died : July 25, 2006 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Carl Brashear It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down Carl Brashear persistence perseverance motivational 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. Carl Brashear running morning blood I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream. Carl Brashear stealing dream Similar Authors Buddy Melges sailor Alain Gerbault sailor Bernard Moitessier sailor Abby Sunderland sailor Harry Herbert Miller sailor George H. Harrison sailor All Authors
