Dorian Yates
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So I did what I wanted to do, which was keep my head down and keep that hunger going.
Use it for fuel.
Yeah.
Take that anger, the negative thing, whatever, change it into something positive.
And we were discussing earlier, like...
Do we know any like elite level athletes that came from a very comfortable, wealthy family?
I don't know any.
I'm not saying there isn't, but I don't know any.
You need that motivation.
You know, you want to make something.
You want to make something of your life.
You want to prove to yourself and everybody else, you know, that you've got something.
And I just, when I was young, I looked at life around me.
I said, Adam, what is this?
I'm gonna get a mate, have some children, go to work, come back.
For a lot of people, this is great.
Maybe the love of the family and everything like that.
But I didn't have that.
Even when I had a family, it wasn't a family.
My mom and dad were kind of together because it was the 60s.