I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.
Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.
Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.
When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us.
People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.
Clean sports becomes an ethical question, but I believe in it.
Going back to the '70s and '80s I was one of the athletes who believed in true sport. I never took medical supplements, believed in diet and exercising. I always represent clean athletes.
I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.
I'm against all types of drugs and steroids, but the athlete has the right to have a private life. He has to be clean on the day of the competition. Out of competition, that's his life.
Whenever you play the game, you just want the game to be on the up and up. You don't want to ever lose a game because you felt like it was stolen from you.
