Athletic Integrity Quotes

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

I'd rather be remembered as a player who came on and impacted a lot of games for England. If I ever take a selfish thought-process of, 'I'm doing this for myself,' then things will be seriously wrong.

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

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

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

I want to be remembered as a fighter with integrity. A fighter who did it this way, who has respect because he wanted to push the envelope for the fighters.

If I medically can't make the weight, then I'm not going to force my body to do something that it doesn't want to. I'll gladly go up to '55.

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.

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

We've been cooperative with the NFL investigation. We'll continue to do so and we will turn all our attention and focus on to the Seattle Seahawks, a very well coached, talented, tough, competitive football team.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

There are just so many substances that are considered banned substances because in some way it could help your performance on the court. As athletes, we should be responsible for what we put in our bodies.

What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

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

If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

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 will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.