Mike Schultz Quotes

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

I race to win, not to please people.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

I've seen with my own eyes what the effects of Israeli neuroscience research is. It was in my congressional district in Philadelphia that ReWalk, the Israeli company that makes the exoskeleton suit that enables paraplegics to walk, carried out their trials.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

Only three per cent of people are born with a disability; the rest acquire it through accident or illness, but people come out of it. Thanks to medical advances, bodies heal.

I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

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.

Like every one, I too enjoy commercial success but for me it is certainly not the end of world.

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.

I want to be able to enjoy my life to the fullest so I can add something to the lives of people around me.

I really enjoy my life in Manchester, my training, my games, everything.

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

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

I am happy because I am helping the team and happy because I am playing well.