Top 45 Mike Schultz Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Snowboarding has taken me so many different places.

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.

Being an athlete, my job was to physically 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.

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

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

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.

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

When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The Moto Knee shows people what’s possible. It’s about guys getting back in action in a sport they love.

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

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

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.

I’ve had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint.

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

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I love being outdoors and trekking around.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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