Dejan Lovren Quotes

Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

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

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

I'm as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in fact, the whole of the left arm.

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

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

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

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

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.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

I probably played hurt a lot more times than I should have.

I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

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