2019 FIM SUPERENDURO & AMA ENDUROCROSS CHAMPION COLTON HAAKER
P128
Interview
know me think.' Because at the
end of the day, I can't help a half
million people that follow me on
social media. I can't control what
they do and I can't change their
minds. I can't touch them. I can't
really enhance their life, truly, no
matter what. But I can enhance
the life of the people around me.
And I can motivate the people
that are in my corner, and if I give
them 100% effort, like my wife
and my family and my friends
that are close to me, then I'm
doing my part. If I'm focusing my
energy on the 490,000 people
I don't know, what am I doing?
I'm giving less time to people that
essentially mean the most to me.
I was just like, whatever. You can
think whatever you want of me.
But I'd rather focus my energy
on the people whose lives I can
touch and be motivating for and
enhance their life. I would rather
spend my entirety doing that than
try to impress all these other
people that are going to fault me
for one thing. I might give them
entertainment for 364 of 365
days but then I do one thing that
I didn't even do! And now I'm the
worst person in the world.
It's like, alright, I don't know
you, you don't know me. It
doesn't give you the right to talk
to me that way just because you
can say it on a message board.
I've been doing that lately as
much as I can. I have social obli-
gations for my Facebook and my
Instagram, but I do that and then I
try to not be involved as much as
I used to. It's just become unim-
portant, honestly.
I'm paid to race motorcycles
so I'm focusing on that, and I'm
focusing on my family and friends
as much as I can.
So there was a lot of back-
lash online, but was there any
from sponsors, or any profes-
sional consequences? It was a
very vocal conflict and you're
both under the same parent
company. What was that like?
From a managerial point of
view, they didn't feel like I did
"I didn't have any teammates at
this one so no one can fault me,"
Haaker quipped of his 2019 AMA
EnduroCross Championship.
