Quotes About Doping

The national pastime is juiced.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.

No sport is 100 per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the normal world, not everybody is clean.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved, winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs. When I was on drugs, I couldn't even find my bike.

The summer Olympic Games 2012 in London was the first no-needle games –

No one forced us to dope, but in the end, you were either in or out: you couldn't survive in the sport without doing it.

Well, I mean, Russia was responsible for shooting down MH17. Russia was responsible for invading Ukraine. Russia is responsible for taking away the chemical weapons in Syria that they didn't take away. Russia was responsible for having honest athletes in the Olympics when they did the whole doping program.

There is no way American sports are any cleaner than cycling.

I don't like talking about cheaters.

recuento oficial reza que durante los Juegos de Los Ángeles hubo once positivos. De acuerdo con Catlin, el número real era de veinte.

Johnson asegura que no fue así, aunque también dice que Astaphan «comenzó a darme píldoras de todo tipo, pastillas de todos los colores que yo me tragaba». Tiene pinta de que no eran aspirinas.

Más de un cuarto de siglo después, en su influyente libro Drugs Games (Los Juegos del Dopaje), Thomas Hunt traduciría en pocas palabras lo que era toda una obviedad: «Uebberroth había llegado a la conclusión de que el seguimiento estricto de las reglas sobre el dopaje constituía una amenaza directa a la integridad económica de los Juegos».

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.