Jim Sensenbrenner Quotes

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

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.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

I don't use PEDs or steroids, I have never used it and I've never had any problems in that area.

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

I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.

My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.

With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

I have never used steroids. Period.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

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

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

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

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

I'm against steroids. Steroids are bad.

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.

There are just so many substances that are considered banned substances because in some way it could help your performance on the court. As athletes, we should be responsible for what we put in our bodies.

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.