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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Having already used a Fox shock in my Moto Knee, the prosthetic leg I developed, I knew that I would take advantage of Fox's superior suspension dynamics in the Versa Foot as well. "

" Fox and I go way back... I got to know the Fox folks pretty well as the result of spending time at races with them over the years. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful. "

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

" 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 know what it takes to make myself perform. "

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

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

" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor. "