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" I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg? "

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" Once I started feeling better and healthier and learned to walk on my first prosthetic leg, I realised I'm not going to be satisfied with just walking around. "

" I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it. "

" It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports. "

" I know firsthand the way that Fox supports their athletes because they've been there for me since the beginning. I know that I can count on them. "

" It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it. "

" I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation. "

" I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A. "

" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "

" After snowboarding a fair bit in 2011 and 2012 to test equipment, I got pretty good at it, and some friends at Adaptive Action Sports talked me into competing at the exhibition event at the Winter X Games in the adaptive boardercross. I was able to step up my game pretty quick and compete. I took last place, but knew I could improve. "

" I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident. "

" I'm helping people do things they haven't done since they had two good legs, and that's worth it right there. "

" I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for. "

" I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be. "

" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "

" I know what it takes to make myself perform. "

" It is definitely easier to deal with injuries on the mental side after you've had a few of them, since you are aware of the recovery process. "

" Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me. "

" For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side. "

" To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor. "

" It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S. "

" To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. "

" I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. "

" The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous - just insane. "

" When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn't really help at all while I'm standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile. "

" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "

" The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it. "

" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "

" I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed. "

" For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe. "

" It's an amazing feeling when I have a customer who tries a leg on and is able to go snowboarding for the first time. "