Amazing awaits
when you least expect it,
or after training for it all our lives

when we shatter records,
and refuse to let adversity break us

when we come from nothing, from nowhere,
over hurdles, over mountains

it awaits when we work hard enough,
want badly enough,
and refuse to say we've had enough

with a nation behind us,
with a world before us,
and within us all.

-U.S. Paralympics