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A Memoir by Paul Martin
Format: Hardcover, 224 pp. paper
ISBN: 0-9671851-5-7
Pub Date: October 2002
Price: $16.00
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"[Martin] tells [his] story with brutal honesty and a light touch… The end result is a heart-warming story—and good lessons about life."
--LOS ANGELES TIMES
" [Martin's] breezy tone is nearly irresistible,…go along for the ride and live vicariously."
-- USA TODAY
" Martin's story and outlook on life and sport will make you smile, cry and feel ashamed of yourself on occasion. "
--Jill Redding, Inside Triathlon magazine
" One Man's Leg is the candid and highly personal memoir of Paul Martin, a one-legged athlete who refused to let what others classified as a disability interfere with his pursuit and love of cycling, marathons, hockey, skiing and more. One Man's Leg is enthusiastically recommended reading as being an upbeat and uplifting saga of the drive to compete and enjoy the best life has to offer."
--Midwest Book Review
" With true grit throughout, this book is a great read for any triathlete or sports fan."
--Triathlete magazine
"A sincere and candid account of life's ups-and-downs from one of the world's most successful disabled athletes. [Readers] will be intrigued by the things that ‘just happen' to Martin; the experiences he is able to conquer; the self-understanding he is able to gain from both successes and failures; and the wit with which he can relay his life's journey."
--USA Cycling magazine
" Entertaining, heart warming, and inspiring. [Martin] has a wonderful ability to get you to alternately laugh and cry with him… he provides moving insights into what fateful events can do to our life paths and how opportunity can sometimes be disguised as adversity."
--Kristen McFarland, The Colorado Triathlete
"Simply put, Paul Martin is a winner and his autobiography is a powerful statement on what a person can achieve if they put their heart and soul into their efforts. The key to this nonfiction work is not the inspirational message that lifts anyone fortunate enough to heed its wisdom. Instead Mr. Martin never preaches, but always advocates going for the gold as an individual and even more significantly as part of a team because it is the accomplishment of reaching the finish line whether one wins the race or not because it is the feat that provides fulfillment."
--Harriet Klausner, AllReaders.Com
"[a] courageous, funny, literate memoir."
--Constant Reader Ann LaFarge, for Taconic (NY) Newspapers
" [Martin's] simple but honest writing style is intertwined with humor, sadness, anxiety and motivation. Read it and you'll realize how much you've been slacking."
--Trail Runner Magazine
" [ONE MAN'S LEG] is a wise, brave and altogether extraordinary piece of work. Unpretentious, sad, sometimes hilariously funny, it demonstrates a humility toward life, and a genuine respect for people, that is all the more remarkable coming from a man who has known the depths and heights that he has. Its conclusion (or at least one of them) is so simple and unfettered that the wisdom it offers would be easy to mistake for glibness—if its author hadn't so clearly paid his way: ‘…The choices I have made, at least the more recent ones, reflect my intentions… They were right simply because I honestly felt that they were.'"
--Alumni Magazine, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
" Genuine and thought-provoking. You will continuously find yourself saying, ‘What would I do in that situation?'"
--Phil LeClair, Smartfuel.com
"… a crackerjack job. There are dozens of memoirs collecting dust on the shelves, because they were written stiffly and edited heavily to make the author appear more noble. Boring! Paul, though, writes about his life, warts and all, with amazing candor and sensitivity, no pageantry, no bologna. Wow, if we all had the courage to speak our truth like he does! … with an exquisite sense of wit and often laugh-til-it-hurts humor that's more refreshing than a mouthful of Peppermint Patties."
--Jillian Leslie, EverydayWarriors.com
Paul's recent TV interviews/segments include the following:
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CBS National Broadcast of XTERRA World Championships, Wailea, HI
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NBC National Broadcast of Olympic Gold
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Fox Sports Net National Broadcast of "Best Damn Sports Show Period" with Tom Arnold Good Day Atlanta, TV Channel 5 - Atlanta, GA
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WBBH TV, Fort Meyers
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WUSA TV - Channel 9, Wash, DC
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WHAG TV Channel 25, Hagerstown, MD
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KADY TV - Ventura, CA
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WBZ TV - Channel 4, Boston, MA
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CNN - NJ
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KDFW TV - Dallas, TX
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KTBC TV - Channel 7 - Austin, TX
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KMOC TV - Channel 4 - San Antonio, TX
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KARE TV - Channel11, Minneapolis, MN
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Channel 11 - Colorado Springs, CO
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Channel 12 - Norwalk, CT
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Fox News Channel 13 Denver, CO
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