Is this not stating the bleeding obvious? To be fair, I suppose if the media want him to give them something to make a story out of there's not much he can say that hasn't been said before.
Have you got a link to the rest of the trascript? Was probably part of a wider question i.e. 'how are you going to be more focused/better prepared this year?' or something like that. Always going to be a fairly mundane answer to a mundane question.
It's the same with most sports, how many footbal careers have ended the day a talented kid suddeny found what his penis was for? Train hard or go out on the pull? I often wonder how far I would've gone if I hadn't spent money on stuff outside karting, all those late nights out partying and (attempting) to feed the peen would've paid for a few engines.
Possibly, but at least he's acknowledging some of his errors and hopefully addressing them. You'd kinda hope that JB would have had a word in his shell over such things. He's worn that t-shirt before.