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" I'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "

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" 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. "

" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "

" Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there. "

" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "

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

" Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for. "

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

" I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built. "

" You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box. "

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

" 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. "

" I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward. "

" 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 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. "

" I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again. "

" 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. "

" Building prosthetics that allow people to get back to the fun activities in life is as rewarding a job as I can imagine. It's just as fulfilling for me as winning at the racetrack. "

" I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating. "

" Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs. "

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

" Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform. "