84 Quotes by Dorian Yates

If you undermine people's confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.

Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport doesn't appeal to me.

Your schedule really gets thrown off when you are traveling. And a schedule is very important when you're training.

I trained for size in the off-season, but when it came time to get ready for a contest it was all about coming in shredded. The glutes must be striated, with the lower back shredded, no water anywhere, no loose skin. Like you are covered in cling-film.

You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.

Exercise and fitness will always be part of my life but it does not have to be lifting huge weights; I like yoga, cycling, walking swimming, anything.

I was always criticized through my whole career because I wasn't doing the whole smiling thing on stage. But I didn't feel like doing that, I felt like I was there for competition and it was tough and I wasn't there to smile.

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.

Protein is crucial to supplying muscle tissue with the building blocks it needs for its growth.