Doping Quotes

Doping Quote of the day

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

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

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

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

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

Google might be doping the horses.

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.