I recently read that Dane Reynolds is cynical, but from reading I didn't get that at all. Help me out?

I read it in Surfing Magazine, but I've read every interview I could get my hands on about the guy and to me he didn't come off cynical. Just wondering if there are people out there who think he is a cynic and if they could explain. He just seems to want to "surf" rather than "win" sometimes.