Chuck Liddell Quotes

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

I love the USADA.

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 could sit down and give USADA my opinions on it, but I want to say they've done a great job. Guys like me are shining because of USADA.

USADA is wonderful, I think they're doing a remarkable job, and they do a remarkable job all around the world.

I think it's great to have USADA come in and clean up the sport, because what I don't want to do is train my butt off for 10 weeks to prepare for a fight for a limited amount of money to feed my family, then get out there with a guy that maybe put in 3 weeks training and cheated.

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.

I have been tested a lot by Jadco and different parties wherever I go, so there is nothing to hide.

Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.

I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.

We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.

I want to give big kudos to USADA. Can it be better? Yeah.

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.

I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.

The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field.

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.

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.

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.

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

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.

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

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.

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