Matt Cain Quotes

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

My message to fans... I'm running clean.

It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

The national pastime is juiced.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.

Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.

I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.

Bisping is a clean athlete, and it comes down to whether you're clean or not. I'm totally against the use of drugs and steroids in the UFC and any performance enhancing drugs. Shows a lot about someone's mental state if they have to do that.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

I have never used steroids. Period.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.