Quotes About Doping

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

There are a lot of guys getting popped for steroids and other PEDS, and I can honestly say I've never taken a PED in my life. I've never even thought about it.

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

I was never a steroid user at all, at least not knowingly.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will.

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

Medina Spirit earned his Kentucky Derby win and my pharmacologists have told me that 21 picograms of betamethasone would have had no effect on the outcome of the race.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.

No athlete entered 2012 with more and left it with less than Lance Armstrong.

Clean sports becomes an ethical question, but I believe in it.

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.