Motivation Quote by Dorian Yates

“Steroids are used in all sports” lands less like a confession than a pressure-release valve. Coming from Dorian Yates - a bodybuilding icon from an era when mass became a kind of arms race - the line aims to puncture the comforting fiction that doping is a niche vice. It’s a blunt bid to normalize: if everyone’s doing it, then the moral spotlight on bodybuilding looks selective, even hypocritical.

The subtext is defensive, but not dishonest. Yates isn’t naming names; he’s shifting the frame from individual wrongdoing to ecosystem. Modern sport is built on marginal gains, and pharmacology is one more tool in the kit, just more stigmatized than altitude tents, painkilling injections, or dubious “supplements” that sit one molecule away from a ban. The quote also carries a veteran’s weariness: outrage tends to track what the audience finds aesthetically “unnatural,” not what actually happens behind closed doors.

Context matters: Yates came up in the 1990s, when bodybuilding’s look and the supplement industry exploded, while major sports were cycling through their own scandals (Ben Johnson, BALCO, cycling’s EPO years). His statement is a reminder that policing isn’t evenly applied; some leagues protect their product with plausible deniability, while others - like bodybuilding - are asked to bear the cultural guilt for everyone’s chemically enhanced dream.