Doping Quotes

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

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

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

“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.”

“À l'insu de mon plein gré.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Clean cycling is possible. I'm living proof of that.”

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

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

“Lying was the new truth.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I cheated, I lied, I doped. I have to live with that for the rest of my life.”