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Make sure you get my good side, 
which is, like, all of this.

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I think the biggest thing that 
people need to know, in this world,

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is that there is no limit, right?

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We always hear the saying:
"The sky's the limit."

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How many times 
have you been told:

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"You can do whatever you want,
the sky is the limit!"

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"You can get there!"

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Well, I think that's a load of BS.

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Sitting here saying, "the sky's the limit"

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well, we have footprints on the Moon, 


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we have Felix Baumgartner
skydiving from space.

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Now tell me the sky's the limit.

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When I was four months old,

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I contracted a rare form of meningitis 
called meningococcal septicaemia.

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What it did was it attacked my bloodstream
so all the blood in my body stopped.

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The doctors had to find where,

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amputate my left hand, my legs,
and some fingers on the right.

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Everyone always says to me:
"Oh my gosh Shayne!

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You're so incredible, you're so strong, 
you're so amazing!

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You have such a big heart,
you have a great heart."

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And really my answer to that
always is, you know,

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I got it from my mama!

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My mom not only did all this,
but she did it on her own.

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My dad split, alright,
so my mom really was

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mom, dad, taxi driver, you know,
basketball coach, hockey coach.

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My mom was everything.

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I've got to do some really cool things.

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Out of 60,000 kids,
I was chosen at 12 years old


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to have lunch with Nelson Mandela.

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At 25, probably the greatest experience 
I'll ever have in my entire life

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came at 12 years old!

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When I looked at Nelson Mandela and 
I said: "Mister Mandela,

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Sir, it's an honor for me to meet you."

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And he looks down at me and 
he puts his hand on my shoulder,

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and Nelson Mandela replies to me:

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"No my child, it's an honor that
I got to share a meal with you."

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I played basketball for about 17 years.

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Hum, I played on 
the junior national team in Canada.

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And it's a very proud thing 
for me to be able to say

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I am the only player with
half a hand to do that in History.

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So for me that's really cool to say.

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I played basketball in a gym called
Variety Village in Toronto

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and it's a sports and training facility
for people with all kinds of challenges...

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and not. 
So it's a training facility for everybody.

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And I was there to promote them.


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And afterwards everyone came up to me
at 8 years old and said:

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"You should really do this for a living,
you're really good at it!"

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Then I gave another one,
and another one...

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and now at 25, I run a speaking company.

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Hum, my favorite exercise that

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I run with the kids
when I do my speaking is

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I'd get them to tell me something
that they love to do.

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So, you know, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna do it with you.

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Give me anything that you love to do.
"Sing"

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Are you the best at it?
"Yes, I am."

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Louder.
"Yes, I am!"

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I quickly tell them:
Well, now, you know,

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Imagine if we were all to decide that
we were the best at something

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on a daily basis.

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How powerful and incredible 
this building would be? Always.

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And then, I don't exclude
myself from it.


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So I tell them, you know,

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Best one-handed wheelchair
basketball player in the world.

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I think, I do.
I believe that that's me.

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Rap. I think I'm the best
white disabled Jewish rapper

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in the world. 
I'm gonna say that too.

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"Great detail"
Right? Right?!

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I mean, I go even farther than that.
This is where I really like to connect

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with them. I tell them that
you know, the only reason why

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Channing Tatum won 
sexiest man in the world

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is 'cos the people that write 
the articles haven't met me yet.

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I think that 96% of women
fall in love with me

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within 5 minutes of meeting me.

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But I quickly change that and say:
"Of all these women,


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why it's so easy for them 
to fall in love with me

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is because I'm
in love with me.

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And that's where it starts, right?
As soon as you can love

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who you are, like
truly love who you are

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it is very easy for other people 
to love you, right?