Masters of Vision

Interview

It starts with the flip of a switch:

I can’t be walking around telling my mom that “I’m the man” and all that — so staying humble at home is easy. But if you work hard and you don’t believe in your ability? Then you’re just wasting everyone’s time. You have to be confident. If you’re not, you’re automatically beat. I know that I’ve got what it takes, so I’m humble away from the track. But I’m crazy confident on it. I mean business when I show up.

It continues in a belief system:

You’re only as good as what you believe you can be. If I only think I’m as good as 90% of the rest, then that’s exactly what I’ll be. But if I believe I’m the best. If I believe that I’m working harder than the rest. If I look at my injuries as ways to improve areas I must’ve been weak in. If I need to get better and always come back stronger. Then I know I can look forward to showing why people love me: because I win.

It’s marked by attitude:

It goes past winning. And it goes past work ethic. It’s the way you approach it — it’s the presence you create when you show up at a race. People automatically have to worry about you. And that’s when their self-doubt can creep in. People want to win championships — they want to knock you off. My job is to make them doubt that they can beat me. And the more I win, the more they doubt, the more I’m doing my thing. And that’s fun.

With plans on leaving the ultimate mark:

When it’s all over for me, I want people to see me like Lance. Like MJ. An ambassador for the sport — the greatest of all time. I’ve broken records, but I want to continue to go faster. Reset the bar. When I have to quit riding, I don’t want to have anything else left to prove. I want to leave it so there’s nothing anyone can question.