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I know I know. I understand I just tire of when its over people can make a stand ,lol.
he could've retired long before he did.
he just always acted like he was a prisoner and wanted sympathy.
loved to watch him rip it though.
People that haven't been broke or struggled financially
Sometimes don't have a different perspective
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Put him on a building site for 6 months in winter, living in a 3 bedroom house with a huge mortgage, car repayments and tell him this is it for the next 20 years, he might change his mind.
The guys at the top work harder than 95% of the general population does at their job. Period. That doesn't even factor in the risk. It ain't all rosey like some of you want to fantasize it is. It's HARD WORK.
Those of you bitching and saying "try this job or that job or this for 60 hours a week" you too have a choice, do something to change your situation so you don't have to do that.
Take the video below for example. RV is all of 13 in this video, and at the 2 minute mark you see him laying on the side of the track (wind knocked out of him)....the following fram you can see pops yell something at him and then walk away, meanwhile RVs mom has to keep distance between the 2 of em....it's a short moment in the video, but that's a pretty hardcore attitude to have towards your kid who was laid out 30 seconds prior
https://youtu.be/PsEiqvCs270
I 100% believe if RV wasn't as good as he was, he woulda quit years ago
For us average working Joe's we can go to work and once its over for the day we can switch off, after a working week we can go out drink/party etc with no consequences.
These athletes already live in a stress filled environment, they can't even let off steam by having a good night out because they will be scrutinized in the media, cameras constantly following them around, the constant sponsorship pushing, the constant PR work.. It's a 24/7 days a week job.
Then people wonder why these athletes/famous people go crazy and we average Joe's sit back ignorantly and say "with all that money how can you do stupid shit/not be happy".
Money aint the cure.
I said "Put him on a building site for 6 months in winter, living in a 3 bedroom house with a huge mortgage, car repayments and tell him this is it for the next 20 years, he might change his mind."
I don't work on a building site and I don't have a mortgage/loan on any of my properties or vehicles, that wasn't my point at all. The point is, he is retired at 30 as a multi millionaire. To reach that point at that age, I would expect to have to work extremely hard in those early years and make sacrifices. He worked hard and he got the rewards and I totally respect that.
But to then sit back in your huge farm with your million dollar bank account and say "I wouldn't do it again" is nuts. If he didn't do it he wouldn't have what he has now. Is he seriously saying he'd rather have worked a 9-5 and be looking at another 30 years of that before retirement, so he could have avoided making those sacrifices earlier? Does he think he wouldn't have made any sacrifices had he gone that route? It would have been a bed of roses had he not rode MX and retired at 30?
I think he lacks a bit of perspective about how things might have been for him without MX, which is totally understandable because he's never lived that life.
I can see how you might think that, but in my opinion when you have a competitive mindset I don't think you have to like what you're doing at all to be able to get really damn good at it.
And they did. My youngest surprised me, he would stand by the track at say a double he wanted to jump and watched what everyone was doing. Then he went out and jumped it. He was 14 months younger than his brother. The day I took the training wheels off my oldest sons bicycle and taught him how to ride it, my youngest was watching and listening the whole time. Later that day, I walk outside and he goes riding by with on his brothers bike with no training wheels. Wth?? Their first bikes were little pw 80’s and the youngest took off riding it by himself quicker than his brother...
I absolutely believe that he would have done something else if he had the choice, retroactively.
No matter what RV did he would have been the best at it, think about that.
Pit Row
Cant beleive people are defending a highly successful very wealthy sportsman like he some charity case cause his family had troubles.
I don't need to give you a break but I will try to make you understand. What RV said is, I would do something else, RV would have made millions at real estate or development or trucking or whatever else he may have done and had a normal relationship with his family. He would rather that, looking back.
This is only my opinion.
Better hate your job for 15 years while claiming multiple MX titles and retire a millionaire at 30, than hate your job for 45 years and retire at 65 with an average pension though, right?
Deep down he knows he’s a very lucky guy. Probably just an ill thought out comment in an interview trying to explain how tough it was.
If you don't understand what someone is going through then "try walking a mile in their shoes".
I've seen and heard enough regarding RV and his career to grasp why he would make such a statement. So the only thing that I really have to say about it is... I understand.
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