It’s an excruciating regimen more appropriate for an athlete: three hours of rehab, two hours at a gym, laps in a swimming pool, but for Roy Horn it’s the price he pays on his road to recovery.

It has been nearly three years since Horn’s tragic accident during a performance of the record-breaking show “Siegfried & Roy at The Mirage.”

Doctors said he would never survive.

He did.

Doctors said he would never walk again.

He does.

The medical professionals underestimated the will of Roy Horn. Those who knew him said he had the heart of a tiger, the will of a thousand men. Today he is proving them right. Horn talked about the journey recently in a posh Las Vegas home where he continues his rehabilitation.

“The unbelievable love of people has made me strong,” Horn said. “It’s a wonderful feeling to be needed and loved. It humbles me to see the love and affection.”

He admits the therapy is grueling as he works to regain full use of his left arm and leg. “They told me I would never walk again, but I knew better,” Horn said. “The beginning of therapy was really tough…a lot of pain…two steps forward and one step back. I had to keep telling myself ‘Don’t give in. God won’t let you down.’ My faith is more established now than ever before. It has helped me to overcome this.”