In the second quarter with TCU trailing 7-0, he was hit after taking a handoff. I tried to get up, but I wasn't getting up. It was frightening. I felt tremendous pain in my neck, and it was hard to breathe. Life, says Matt Moore, with no trace of despair or bitterness, is what you make of it.
Life is too short.
Like Waldrep, he believes he is not destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. With his long, light brown hair drooping down his forehead, and his hands lying limp on the arms of his wheelchair, he spoke this day in the TCU Lettermen's Lounge, which overlooks the field at Amon Carter Stadium. Strangely enough, Moore had never heard of Waldrep until his injury. And he met him for the first time when Waldrep showed up at his Houston hospital. The one who went before him had come to offer encouragement and advice.