(upbeat music)
- Post the injury,
you know I'd really struggled
with, a sense of identity.
I was doing my rehabilitation
and I saw a contraption
sitting on the floor.
They said, that's an adaptive hand bike.
Are you interested in one?
And I said, absolutely.
I just associated the bike with happiness.
And I don't think I've
been off it ever since.
Perspective is everything,
no matter where you're currently at,
you can move to wherever
you might prefer to be.
No matter how crazy different it might be.
I started to learn the
value of the process
versus the gold medal or the finish.
I started to establish deep
faith in my ability to succeed
in life and thus faith in myself.
My version of the 'A'
is like how malleable our identity can be.
One's ability to adapt can
certainly go into succeeding at
Paralympic Games.
Los Angeles is making great strides
and seeing the opportunity
of what the Paralympics
could bring in eight years.
I hope for growing that
movement on the Paralympic side,
that would be a really cool thing.
