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Hey, welcome back to Spartan Up Podcast, and Tim you had a huge pleasure in this next interview of

interviewing Tim Morris.

I did, pleasure, honor, whatever words you want to use, but it was, I was quite, I was quite taken talking to him. And he's got a tremendous story and he's quite open about it. I mean he's

paralyzed from chest down. So I don't want to redo the interview but we'll go and

listen to him and hear what he's got to say and I think you're going to all be pretty

impressed with him. Welcome everybody we're here in Boston today at Spartan

headquarters. It's my privilege today to talk to Tim Morris and adaptive

athlete and an SGS coach who's right here from Boston, a

young man who's overcome some great challenge in his life and is quite an inspirational young man so we're going to get a chance to talk to him, hear his story and hope it has some impact on you.

One summer night in 2007. I was on my way to a friend's house.

Distracted driving. Not paying attention. I was answering the phone and I was getting off the highway.

I flipped my Grand Cherokee. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt.

So Grand Cherokee began to roll. I came out the moon roof and the jeep actually rolled over my body,

breaking my neck, breaking my back, all my ribs, which punctured my lungs and you know filled my lungs with a gallon of blood and you know and mangled my shoulder my hand but fortunately the the injury, the injury caused paralysis fortunately I wasn't paralyzed from the neck down.

I just broke my back and paralyzed from the chest down with full use of of my

arms. So you know I was laying in the hospital bed after a month a month coma. I was laying in the hospital bed here. It was broken and alone and I realized that

You know I was I had plenty of time to think back and I realized that I was one that pulled myself in this situation and

There's no use to complaining about it, you know, first of all, there's always, I always say, you know, somebody always has it worse. There are other people out there who, you know, would it have broken their neck in a much worse situation, unable to...

Or died.

Yeah. Yeah. situation unable to or died or yeah unable yeah unable to move their arms or no longer you know no longer breathing

so so you know at that point I realized, listen, it was your decisions that put you in this situation,

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