The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Quotes about performance-enhancing (16 Quotes)
We don't at all agree that the program we have negotiated and implemented is weak. To the contrary, we believe we have a very strong program in a sport that has no experience or history of problems with performance-enhancing drugs,
Yet again, a European newspaper has reported that I have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs,
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
I'm glad USADA saw it for what it was, a mistake and nothing else. I had a very strong case. I had all the evidence that I needed to prove that it was a harmless, honest mistake. I could show that I'm not on performance-enhancing drugs and they handled it in the right way.
These women work incredibly hard. They take drugs for the same reason a truck driver takes drugs. To stay awake and do their job. Like steroids, these are performance-enhancing drugs.
The thought of Medicare wasting vital resources on performance-enhancing drugs is unconscionable, especially at a time when the focus should be on providing life-saving medications for truly needy seniors. Seniors should never be denied life-saving drugs at the cost of providing non-essential drugs for others.
MLS reiterates its belief that the use of performance-enhancing substances compromises the integrity of professional sports,
Bryan Berard is one of the most courageous and dedicated athletes I've ever been around. To overcome the adversity that he has in recent years has been inspiring. He made a mistake, has acknowledged it and is committed to moving forward. We have every confidence in Bryan and firmly believe there will be no subsequent issues with the new program addressing the use of performance-enhancing substances adopted by the National Hockey League and NHL Players' Association this season.
I believe there have been high school athletes in Illinois to use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. It's probably a small number, but I think it would be naive to believe there hasn't been any usage. People like Jose Canseco have brought this to the forefront, and it isn't going away anytime soon.
This agreement reaffirms that major league players are committed to the elimination of performance-enhancing substances and that the system of collective bargaining is responsive and effective in dealing with issues of this type.
Just say the whole era - that these records were established in an era when the use of performance-enhancing drugs was widespread in baseball.
This is an important step to reaching our goal of ridding our sport of performance-enhancing substances and should restore the integrity of and public confidence in our great game. I appreciate the effort put forward by the players' association and our players in reaching this new agreement.
Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will.
I am shocked by the decision of the ITF, they have been very strict and I will no doubt appeal. I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and never will. I have no reason to do such a stupid thing.
An understanding that it is now indisputable that an entire era in baseball was out of whack, distorted, to some extent inauthentic, and has be viewed almost separate from the rest of baseball history. And that, although baseball is, in fairness, making a belated but now concerted effort to deal with the problem . . . all you can do is try to diminish the use of performance-enhancing drugs, try to change the culture surrounding the sport so that people voluntarily decide they are not going to do it.