Pete Rose Quotes

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

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

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.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

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.

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

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

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

There are two drawbacks to steroids, one is the potential problems with your health and the second one is it is very easy for people to dismiss everything you have put into it by saying, 'yeah but he takes steroids.'

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

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

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

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

I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

I'm against steroids. Steroids are bad.

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

I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.

Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.

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.

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.