Andy Stumpf
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And it's going to be, it's hard, but he's built up the entire sport.
And Brian Deegan, Hayden's father, Brian, he built the sport of freestyle.
I didn't know.
I was just this kid that wanted to ride dirt bikes.
And he was kind of like good versus evil and everything.
And it helped up kind of everything to that.
But I take a step back now and I'm like, sports figures aren't real people.
We are real people.
We take it personally.
But
I had the privilege, I would say, of walking into one of my first Supercrosses, World Championship, first ever World Championship I did, Rose Bowl, and I was walking in through the gates, and I was walking behind a group of college-age students, and I'm younger than them, 16 years old, just got my pro license.
And I was walking in, and the people in front of me were like, oh, what do you think about Pastrana?
And I was like, oh, cool, this is me.
And the guy's like, oh, dude, that freestyle kid, oh, what a punk.
Dude, he's going to kill someone.
I hope he crashes and kills himself before.
And they're literally saying they hope I die.
And I was like, really take him back.
And I walked by, and when I walked by, I kind of nodded.
And the same guy that was like, man, that punk, he's never going to make it in the sport and all this stuff.