Doping Quotes

“You convince yourself that it's not cheating, it's just leveling the playing field.”

“I saw two doctors, the team doctor and my secret doctor.”

“I didn't invent doping. And I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.”

“I'm the guy that started all this. I'm the godfather of the steroid era.”

“Steroids are used everywhere, and they're here to stay. It's not a secret.”

“I was in the business of crushing dreams. My own included.”

“EPO was the rocket fuel that powered our generation of cyclists.”

“The sport is still run by the same guys who ran it in the nineties... It's not a sport that's been through a catharsis.”

“I realised I was living in a bubble, an amoral bubble where I was disconnected from the real world.”

“We were a brotherhood, but we were also a silent conspiracy.”

“À l'insu de mon plein gré.”

“We're not in the business of catching people; we're in the business of protecting clean athletes.”

“I was a young man, I was arrogant, and I was in a sport that was corrupt.”

“The omertà is the code of silence that exists in cycling. It's what allows the doping to continue.”

“Je suis un homme propre, j'ai rien à me reprocher.”

“Lying was the new truth.”

“We were all in on it. The riders, the doctors, the team managers. It was a massive fraud.”

“You don't win the Tour de France on sleeping pills.”

“Doping in sport is a symptom of a deeper problem. It's a problem of a society that rewards winning at any cost.”

“My biggest fear was that I would be remembered as a doper, and not as a bike rider.”