Peter Singer Quotes

Steroids are used in all sports.

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

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

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.

Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

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.

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

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