Craig Ferguson Quotes

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

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

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

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.

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.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

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

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

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.

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

A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.

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

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.

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

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

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.