Carl Brashear Quotes

United States, Officer
January 19, 1931 – July, 25, 2006.

Carl Maxie Brashear was a highly decorated United States Navy Sailor. He was a U.S. Navy Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970 having an amputated left leg. The film Men of Honor was based on his life.

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
- Water
- Morning
- Sometimes
It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

Carl Brashear
- Down

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

Carl Brashear
- Dream
- Stealing