Andy Stumpf

He shook my hand.

We're about to get in the car for a week of driving, like literally 18 hours a day in a car.

And he goes, hey, just want you to know I'm not going to bail you out of jail.

I was like, all right.

He goes, because I'm going to be in there with you if we get there.

I was like, my man.

We didn't go to jail for the record.

That is good.

But...

What he said was, if you're in hell with your friends, it's not hell.

It's where you want to be.

And I think I was very, very fortunate to come up with most of my family was military.

My dad was military.

And when you got hurt, it wasn't like, oh, my gosh, you were hurt.

It's like, hey, suck it up, rub some dirt on it.

And, you know, like I saw when I was 11 years old, didn't even crash.

I was doing a trick, which.

my parents weren't that excited about, but Loretta Lins, which is the national championship, the qualifier, did a heel clicker, landed sideways, and my foot slipped off the foot peg, and I broke my tibia, big dent in the femur, tore my ACL, my PCL, my LCL, my MCL.

At 11?

Bucket handle meniscus, which means the meniscus flopped over, and the kneecap was on the side of my knee.