Tyler Hamilton Quotes

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

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.

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

It doesn't matter who you play - you can win against anyone; you can lose against anyone.

For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?

Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

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

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

On the field, everyone is equal.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

Clean sports becomes an ethical question, but I believe in it.