Jorge Lorenzo in statements for the podcast “The Wild Project” talked about his way of thinking at the time he was racing and, according to Lorenzo, it led him to be the MotoGP world champion.
– I believe a lot in the Japanese philosophy, in ‘Kaizen’, because if we think that we will never be World Champions or that this is not our goal, we will never be. The first step is wanting to be World Champion, because there are people who were not born for that and hate competition, hate it, were not born for it, do not seek it and do not want to compete and are not ambitious. No one tells them they have to improve, they do the minimum and that’s it. But the great champions are ambitious and huge, very competitive, otherwise they are not good for sports, nor for competition.
He also added about the ideal profile to be a champion: ‘Hypercompetitiveness, sacrifice capacity, resistance to pain, curiosity, perfectionism and intelligence. If we combine effort and talent/discipline, it is the maximum. If I have to choose, I choose discipline, but it is best to have both things.’
