Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Mihail Pautov) with an interviewee (likely Dorian Yates) discussing motivation for bodybuilding. The interviewee says his drive was to be different, to change his life and avoid becoming a criminal, and mentions ambitions such as becoming a British champion and owning a gym.
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What was the drive? I mean, was it like to look better, to have a better place in competition for, I mean to attract like other girls or what is for you to be able to stand up against somebody on the street? What was the main drive?
The main drive was I am not like everybody else. I don't want to be like everybody else. I have something inside which is burning and I look around and this life and everything I see is not for me. I'm supposed to be something different. I have to be something different and I'm going to change my life with bodybuilding. I don't know exactly how it's going to change, but I can continue down this road and be a criminal or not. I have something here and I want to do this and maybe I can be like a, I don't know, British champion one day. Maybe I can have my own gym. This was how I started and then quickly I got very sore.