To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
Bisping is a clean athlete, and it comes down to whether you're clean or not. I'm totally against the use of drugs and steroids in the UFC and any performance enhancing drugs. Shows a lot about someone's mental state if they have to do that.
I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.
The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.
Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.
Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.
Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be.
We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.
I love the USADA.
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
USADA is wonderful, I think they're doing a remarkable job, and they do a remarkable job all around the world.
People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
I want to give big kudos to USADA. Can it be better? Yeah.
There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
I don't use PEDs or steroids, I have never used it and I've never had any problems in that area.
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.
