"I didn't take them off for a year and a half … except to go to bed," he said with a smile. "Getting the shoes and meeting the players for the first time was obviously an inspiration. The only times I would leave Magee would be either for a surgery … or the [Flyers'] Voorhees practice center. They stood me up, and I watched practice, and we called it therapy, which I guess it was, because I was standing up. But it just gave me inspiration to know that if these guys worked hard to get to where they're going now, what's stopping me to get from working hard to where I want to be?"