Now they got the call from the shortest Tyrone Bogues.

現在他們接到了最矮的泰隆-博格斯的電話。

He is now the shortest player in the NBA.

他是現在NBA中最矮的球員。

Tyrone Bogues from Wake Forest at the age of five.

泰隆-博格斯五歲時來自維克森林。

You know, I got shot growing up in the city of Baltimore was challenging, you know, as a kid, you know, it was a lot of drug infested areas in our neighborhood, A lot of shooting, a lot of violence.

你知道，我被槍殺了成長在巴爾的摩市是具有挑戰性的，你知道，作為一個孩子，你知道，這是一個很多毒品氾濫的地區，在我們的鄰居，很多槍擊，很多暴力。

Unfortunately for me, at the age of five, you know, I got shot, you know, being outside, being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

不幸的是，對我來說，在五歲的時候，你知道，我被槍殺了，你知道，在外面，是在錯誤的地方，在錯誤的時間。

My mom and dad was going crazy, not knowing that I was outside.

爸爸媽媽都快瘋了，不知道我在外面。

And then knowing that, you know, I was one of the kids laying out there with a couple bucks shots all over his body was very frightening and scary for them as well as myself.

然後知道，你知道，我是一個孩子 躺在那裡與一對夫婦塊錢的鏡頭 在他的身體是非常可怕的，嚇唬他們 以及我自己。

Um, but it was It was their life, you know?

嗯，但這是 這是他們的生活，你知道嗎？

It was a man of growing up.

這是一個成長中的男人。

I mean, no one felt like that.

我是說，沒有人有這種感覺。

No one thought they have a life expectancies past 20.

沒有人認為他們的壽命能超過20歲。

You know that?

你知道嗎？

Which was very strange, you know, knowing that that was the case, but that was the mindset back then because we had a lot of guys at, ah, young age dying mainly because, you know, they wanted that fast money.

這是非常奇怪的，你知道， 知道是這樣的情況下， 但這是當時的心態，因為我們有很多人 在，啊，年輕的時候死了，主要是因為， 你知道，他們想快速賺錢。

They wanted to get into that world a lot sooner.

他們想早點進入那個世界。

And they want, you know, possibly take care of their family as well as tryto provide for their, you know, for their household.

他們想，你知道，可能採取 照顧他們的家庭，以及嘗試提供 為他們，你知道，為他們的家庭。

So, you know, people did all sorts of things in terms of try to make ends meet.

所以，你知道，人們做了各種各樣的事情 在嘗試維持生計方面。

But luckily that we had a game called basketball in sports.

但幸運的是，我們在體育界有一種遊戲叫籃球。

Sports was really a mechanism that kept us really at a safe, kept us where gave us a safe haven place to really feel comfortable with.

體育真的是一個機制，讓我們真的在一個安全，讓我們在哪裡給我們一個安全的避風港的地方，真的很舒服。

That was a way of keeping us, you know, off the streets, keeping our mind, you know, active in other area, as opposed to thinking about Hey, it's time to try toe, you know, over and get a few of those quick dollars.

這是讓我們的方式，你知道的，離開街道， 保持我們的頭腦，你知道的，活躍在其他領域， 而不是想著嘿，它的時間來嘗試腳趾，你知道的， 並得到一些那些快速美元。

You know, at that time, I had no in clean or no idea that, you know, I want to pursue this as a career, you know, it was just a hobby.

你知道，在那個時候，我沒有在乾淨或沒有想法，你知道，我想追求這個作為一個職業生涯，你知道，這只是一個愛好。

It was just something that I wanted to dio.

這只是我想要的東西，dio。

But unfortunately for May you know, being small and trying to play a sport that didn't know at the time was supposed to been meant for a bigger, taller player.

但不幸的是，梅你知道的，個子小，想玩一項當時不知道應該是為大個子、高個子選手準備的運動。

You know, we got a lot of criticism from it, you know, a lot of backlash, a lot of name calling, you know, which could affect with confidence.

你知道，我們得到了很多的責備 從它，你知道，很多的反彈， 很多稱呼，你知道， 這可能會影響與信心。

Well, at the beginning, you know, it was challenging.

嗯，一開始的時候，你知道，這是具有挑戰性的。

It was tough, you know, many days and many nights going home, just crying to my mom and just telling them how cruel the kids are out there.

這是艱難的，你知道，很多天，很多晚上回家，只是哭了我的媽媽，只是告訴他們如何殘酷的孩子在那裡。

And you know how mean they were.

你也知道他們有多卑鄙

I wanted it all.

我都想要。

You know, it wasn't just gonna satisfied, Satisfied with what someone else had planned for me.

你知道，這不僅僅是要滿足，滿足於別人對我的計劃。

You know, I want to create my own destiny, and I start to understand that I was in position to do that.

你知道，我想創造我自己的命運，我開始明白，我是在位置上做到這一點。

And, you know, when I became 12 and 13 years old, you know, words never matter.

當我變成12歲和13歲的時候，你知道，話語從來都不重要。

You know, it came in one day out the other.

你知道的，它是在一天之內出來的。

You know, I was on the journey.

你知道，我在旅途中。

I was on my path, trying to become this basketball player, that no one felt like he had any, you know, any opportunity to do some little jokes.

我在我的道路上，試圖成為這個籃球運動員，沒有人覺得他有任何，你知道，任何機會做一些小笑話。

That's that was out there.

這就是在那裡。

You know, you're short, you know, you need to be sitting on the curb which feet swinging off.

你知道，你很矮，你知道，你需要坐在路邊哪隻腳擺動了。

You know, we could put you in the drawer when we're traveling.

你知道，我們可以把你放在抽屜裡 當我們旅行。

You know, as they said, growing up as a kid when they say sticks and stones may hurt your bones, the world words will never hurt you.

你知道嗎，就像他們說的，從小到大他們說棍棒和石頭可能會傷到你的骨頭，世界上的文字永遠不會傷害你。

It's not true.

這不是真的。

Worse will hurt you.

更糟糕的是會傷害你。

Now they're killing folks.

現在，他們正在殺害人們。

So where is a very empower ful?

那麼，哪裡是一個很賦有的富？

And then, you know, that was very deterrent at the time, But it didn't distract because your heart, you know it measure it pretty much, doesn't have a height talk, you know, pretty much set the tone of who you are, which were able to accomplish, you know, And the height factor was the game of basketball.

然後，你知道，這是非常 威懾的時候， 但它沒有分散，因為你的心臟， 你知道它衡量它相當多， 沒有一個高度的談話， 你知道，相當多的設置基調 你是誰，這是能夠完成， 你知道，和高度因素 是籃球比賽。

So, you know, my heart was bigger than my height, so I didn't have no, no second or no no hang ups on e believing that I belong with, you know, the best of the best.

所以，你知道，我的心臟比我的身高大， 所以我沒有，沒有第二或沒有掛斷e 相信我屬於與，你知道，最好的最好的。

Because my heart was just, you know, just biggest.

因為我的心只是，你知道，只是最大的。

There's things that have happened to me in my life, Allowed me to reflect, allowed me to to resonate who I am.

我的生活中發生了一些事情，讓我反思，讓我對自己的身份產生了共鳴。

Especially when I got shot.

尤其是我中槍的時候。

You know, those things became so clear in terms off.

你知道，這些事情變得如此清晰的條款關閉。

Hey, almost wasn't here, you know?

嘿，差點沒來，你知道嗎？

So why I have to worry about what?

那我為什麼要擔心什麼？

Someone else saying That hurt me and deteriorate me from becoming who I wanna be.

別人說，傷害了我，使我無法成為我想成為的人。

So you know, that changed my mindset.

所以你知道，這改變了我的心態。

You know, I remember early on when I used to go down on the court with my basketball and hearing all the words and having all the, you know, the criticism about me being short.

你知道，我還記得早年，當我用去 在球場上與我的籃球和聽到所有的話 並有所有的，你知道，責備 關於我是短。

Um, but after I got shot, I remember going back down there and hearing those same criticism about myself, but they didn't have the same impact.

嗯，但在我中槍後，我記得回到那裡 聽到那些同樣的責備自己， 但他們沒有同樣的影響。

You know, when in one there are others I alluded to earlier.

你知道，當在一個有其他我前面提到的。

Everybody has some sort of opinion about who you are.

每個人對你的身份都有一定的看法。

Don't give them that platform.

不要給他們這個平臺。

Don't give them the ammunition.

不要給他們彈藥。

That's their opinion.

那是他們的意見。

Don't mean that it's true about who you are.

不要說你是誰是真的。

So you know, anything is possible.

所以你知道，一切皆有可能。

Um, positive thinking is also translate to that.

嗯，正向思維也是可以轉化的。

Everything happens for a reason.

每件事都是有原因的

No regrets are the negative things that happened.

不後悔是指發生的負面事情。

Thankful for it because I learned hopefully I learned from those situations and other positive things.

感謝它，因為我學到了希望我從這些情況和其他積極的事情。

I'm humbly grateful that those able to take place and still struggling be the best I could be in, you know, going forward.

我謙虛地感謝那些能夠發生，還在奮鬥的人，我可以在最好的，你知道的，前進。

Hopefully, I can caress and cared to be the best they could do.

希望我可以愛撫和關心他們，讓他們做到最好。

We're all human beings.

我們都是人。

Treat one as you would want to be treated.

對待一個人，就像你希望被對待一樣。