“A judge told me in the amateurs, ‘You’ll timekeep for three-four years, then you’ll be judging for another three-four years, and then around year eight-nine, we’ll start working you in,’” Taylor recalled. “I’m sitting back, biting my tongue, thinking, ‘You have no fricking clue the path I’m taking and how I’m going to get there, and you’re not telling me the path I’m going to take.’ I did my own thing. No one was going to stop me.”
