On The Pegs March 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 3 | Page 68

On The Pegs
While in Sumter, OTP spoke to Steward Baylor about the success he’s had
running his own team.
You butted heads with the team manager when you were on the factory KTM
team. Is it fair to say there are not many teams you’d be able to work with?
I think yes. I think KTM has their winning guy. While they have their winning guy,
they’re going to sculpture their team around that winning guy. No matter what
sport it is, I don’t care if it’s football, baseball, anything - if you’ve got your winning
guy on your team, you’re not going to look out for another top guy. So for me, I’m a
winning guy. In my head, I want to be the winning guy. Nothing against their win-
ning guy, but I just don’t think there can be two of us under the same tent. So with
that being said, that was more my deciding factor. I want to be the number one
guy under my tent. I don’t want to have to catch the dribble off of somebody else’s
leftovers. With Tely and being able to run my own program, I’m the number-one
guy. It’s easier for me to go out and do exactly what I need to do without some-
body else telling me, “Hey, this is how so-and-so does it.”