Anderson Silva Quotes

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.

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.

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

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

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

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

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.

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

In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.

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

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 would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

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

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

I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be.

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

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

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'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.

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.

Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.

Steroids are used in all sports.