Dorian Yates
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Podcast Appearances
So there was that then.
I left home at 16, and I just didn't have the lifestyle to pursue it.
And for some reason, I'm not doing this.
I said, I'm not doing this until I can do it properly.
And I always knew I was different, I guess.
But I didn't know why, and I didn't know where it was going, but I knew it was going somewhere.
And it's a strange feeling through my whole process.
I feel like I've done it before almost, you know, like it was destined.
It wasn't a surprise.
And the earlier years, it's like I just knew I got to just put everything into this.
I got to put everything into it.
And I can't let anything distract me 100% into this.
So, yeah, I knew I was destined for something.
And when I started doing bodybuilding, I was like, ah.
So this is it.
I don't know if you heard the story, but I got a little bit of trouble.
Just rowdy guys, really.
We got picked up on the street at the wrong time because there were some street riots in Birmingham, which we weren't involved with, but wrong place, wrong time.
Got sent to a detention center.
And in there, they had weights.