Jorge Lorenzo in his statements for the podcast “The Wild Project” talked about his way of thinking during his racing career, which according to Lorenzo, led him to become 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 to want to be World Champion, because there are people who were not born for that and hate competition, they detest it, they were not born for it, they 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, ability to sacrifice, 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.’
