Richard Pound Quotes (9 Quotes)

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

If anything were found, we couldn't do anything because we didn't even exist in 1999, It's important that the truth must always be made clear.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

All this cheating goes on under the supposedly watchful eyes of cycling officials, who loudly proclaim that their sport is drug-free and committed to remaining so. Based on performance, they should not be allowed outdoors without white canes and seeing-eye dogs.

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying, 'Well, I guess we do know how the name got public, we made it possible,'

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.

We've given out a general comfort statement to the TV broadcasters saying you're the ones who brought us to the dance, so we'll do everything we can to protect those rights.

In future years we have to assume that there will be somebody out there who will be willing to do it.