Josh Turek

straight out of college.

And that was 2004.

And as you know, as a basketball nation, if you don't win, it's basically like gold or failure.

And we got knocked out in the quarterfinals.

And then they changed coaches.

And I say there's a beauty and a beast to represent in the USA in basketball.

The beauty is that you're going to have an amazing opportunity to win a gold medal.

The beast is there's so many good players that you never know if you're going to have the opportunity to represent again.

And they switched coaches.

And for six straight years, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.

And I just kept coming back.

And I said, eventually, you are not going to take my dream away from me.

Eventually, I'm going to get so good that you're going to take me.

And I finally made the team again in 2011, which was the qualifier for the Paralympics.

And then in 2012, won a bronze medal

in London, I led the team in scoring and rebounding.

And that bronze medal means almost as much to me as those gold medals, because it represents that hard work and struggle of trying to get back there.

And then I had the great fortune of being able to end my career, back-to-back gold medals.

That was amazing with my brother.

And you create a real deep brotherhood.