Doping Quotes

• The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Appreciation, Greatness, Sad Things

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

  Lance Armstrong

  Trying, Culture

  "Lance Armstrong makes Oprah confession". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2013.

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• Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

  Jacques Rogge

  Play, Understanding, Spirit

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• My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cocktails, Speak, Confession

  "Armstrong: I cheated". Interview with Martin Cuddihy, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2013.

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• I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sorry, Mistake, Trying

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• I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Eye, Player

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Years, Careers

  FaceBook post by Lance Armstrong from May 19, 2011

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• Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are self-righteous a lot are apparently doping themselves rhythmically with auto-secreted surges of dopamine, endorphins and enkephalins. Didn't you ever ask yourself why indignation feels so good?

  David Brin

  Mean, Self, People

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• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Motivational, Athlete, Responsibility

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• I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Drug, Tests, Performances

  " Lance Armstrong's doping denials - in quotes" by Stephen McMillan, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There comes a time where next to everyone will resort to techniques that enhance cognitive, mental including emotive, physical, and other capacities. When this has happened, if not before, the ban on doping in sport will have been lifted.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Sports, Next, Technique

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Believe, One Day, Next

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• Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

  Dov Davidoff

  Writing, Thinking, Blood

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• When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

  John Scott

  Serious, Funding, Commit

  "Korchemny in plea bargain" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.

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• If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, Racing, Take Me Back

  "Lance Armstrong: If I Had To Do It All Over, I’d Probably Cheat Again" by Maxwell Strachan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Race, Track

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I don't want to be an exception, because I was very outspoken about Performance Enhancing Drugs. It would be bad for my reputation if I would have an exemption [for doping test] - I don't want to have a free pass, I want to be like everybody else.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Drug, Want, Tests

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, World, Sophisticated

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Well China, you got us. Phelps was doping - and he still beat you. He smoked the sticky-icky, and then he smoked your ass!

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, London Olympics, Ass

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• I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

  Richard Virenque

  Phones, Hands, Numbers

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• Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Men, Race

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• I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

  Vincenzo Nibali

  Italian, Cycling, Piano

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• All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Class, Organization

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• [A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Taken, Rights, Drug

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• I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Team, Issues, Race

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