Rohan Murphy, motivational speaker, with student reaction
made of gold written on the rainbow
there’s wisdom to people my friend when
I was born my kneecaps read of opposite
side that’s how badly deformed legs were
my kneecaps when the opposite side
public school or they had a very great I
noticed something I noticed that I was
totally different I was the one to in a
wheelchair and I was the only one out
there that liked and I really made me
stick out made me feel uncomfortable it
was hard for me to relate to the
students it’s hard for me just to do a
lot of things that one else was doing in
school and the big thing for me was
playing sports but I think you could
wrestle and I’m like huh
wrestle how would that be possible
how do you have legs that even be
allowed I said again what got to do
somehow got a wheelchair jump on a mat
grab people’s legs and dig now
I was like whoa all right all right if
you really want to do it do it just be
careful try harder
do you best and so the very next year I
went out for high school wrestling to a
ninth grade and that first practice was
the biggest day of my life
all right probably a moment here to
demonstrate like prevalent able-body
takedown looks like to rustlers alright
so charlie let’s just take them down and
simple safe go play fake gun all right
over here – oh gosh
so I’m gonna have pedestrian where the
mole will take that looks like there
goes simple double life all right
so for me to wrestle is going to be a
little bit different obviously since I
didn’t have legs
try I’m going to use you
don’t worry her but restless would be a
little bit different design now play so
the first thing my coach told me to do
was to get down low which was easy
enough since I didn’t have legs and she
had post ankle to take down so when I
wrestled pounds like this alright great
Charlotte alright like that that’s how
to wrestle that’s how I take people down
thanks charlie
and now you want me to imperative ten
push-ups and a period of ten push-ups go
something like this it’s not just long
one – you know it’s like this one one
two one two three and all the up
dependent I’m not going to be ten now
all right maybe next time
am I really doing this one sport of
wrestling I really love it that much
and the answer is yes I’m telling you
the story because when I was a kid
people always tell me what I could and
couldn’t do because I didn’t have legs
and to be honest with you most of the
time they’re telling me what I couldn’t
do
so anytime someone challenged me in life
I want to prove them wrong I want to
show them that anything was possible and
that I can be anything that I put my
mind to even though I didn’t have less
when you walk you will have no dirt if
you walk the nut the squares as you go
through like make this you go watch the
donut not the hole
you never gave up and he was so
persistent with what he does like
whenever he was given like challenges he
always like over exceeded them and he
never did the minimum he always did the
best that he could I thought it was
really cool that he was so committed
because I was an athlete like a lot of
times he goes through really really
tough challenges and like the fact that
he had even bigger challenges makes you
want to work even harder this that like
she had the courage to go to college and
not wanted to be a manager but when it’s
actually wrestle for the team I wish I
could push myself as hard as he could
but I don’t know it seems harder than it
really is um I thought it was really
like unique how he could do all those
things like cuz it’s not like he can do
regular push-ups because he doesn’t have
his legs so he like makes the best of
what he has it just made me realize how
I’m grateful I’m grateful for
I’m legs and having everything that I
have in life so when he said that he
really pushes himself and then was
talking about how when his team went up
the mountain and he walked it instead of
granite I was thinking about how
determined and how he’d push himself and
how I can do that with grades and like
going to college he was a good speaker
and you could tell that he put effort
into what he did and he was a really
cool guy and I just admired how
confident he was how he never gave up
and like I’m an athlete so I took from
that like I need to be doing what he’s
doing and you know don’t try to be good
try to be the best he looks like a
really strong person he doesn’t care
about what people thought about him
anything and he said that it was hard
for him in the beginning but now that
he’s you through it well there’s not
that many wrestlers and people are kind
of scared to try for the sport and it’s
kind of cool about a guy with no legs
would go out for a sport that’s so hard
and I mean most people can’t do it it’s
too much for them to handle it’s really
amazing that he can do all that he does
with what we think would be a
disadvantage but he makes it something
he could live with I thought it was just
really cool basically he was just
talking about his life and how you know
he’s always felt like just because he
doesn’t have legs he was you never had
like a disadvantage you know he always
worked hard at what he did
