I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream. Carl Brashear More Quotes by Carl Brashear More Quotes From 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