Dorian Yates

And it's like a form of mastery over oneself, mastery over the whole thing with the dieting as well for competitions.

maybe i went a little bit overboard with it and came down a little bit too much because then it was like mastery over my instincts to want to eat and do that no i'm deciding here i'm in control and maybe this worked against me a bit as well because i would be like going to the war i don't care if you're if i feel a little i'm going through it you know so um

Yeah, I used all these anger, negative emotions, whatever it is.

I'll show you.

I'm going to make it.

I'm going to do this.

So whatever works for you.

But for me, that worked.

Anything negative, turn it into something positive.

It's transforming the negative energy, which could be destructive to myself or maybe other people around me, taking it.

alchemy, you know, changing into something else.

So I used all that negative feeling, negative emotions.

And I stayed in Birmingham as well while I was Mr. Olympia for six years.

More opportunities here and everything, but more distractions as well.

So I wanted to stay in the same gym, try to keep that same attitude, even though I got more money in the bank and I'm driving a Mercedes instead of jumping on the bus, right?

But I wanted to keep that.

That's why I didn't move over here.

A lot of people ask me, why didn't you go to the States?

Because the industry is there.

But by the time I got to be Mr. Olympia, I could kind of dictate things.