Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.
Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.
To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
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 you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.
This is an Olympic-level type of sport and it needs to be cleaned up.
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.
I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.
I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
When the guys test for the steroids, they should have no more fights.
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.
What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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.
I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.
You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.
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.
In track and field, a lot of people don't make a lot of money, so if you're a lower name you might just get run over by USADA because they're just looking to get people out of the sport.
I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.
