Steroids Quotes

Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long-term effects in children were not clear. - Claude Lenfant

ADT on steroids is what this thing is. - Dan Goure

[Two months ago, Wells had choice words for an umpire, and perhaps thinking the umpire had a hearing problem, got so close to him that he was accused of making contact, a decided prohibition in baseball. And when his appeal of his six-game suspension was denied in late August, he blistered Commissioner Bud Selig about not] doing anything about steroids. ... an idiot. - Bud Selig

[The union] has expressed to us a suggestion that they are not so certain that steroids are bad for you. We don't share that view. We think that the evidence is clear that it is a danger for you. And in any event, it is illegal and we're not willing to have the players take the risk while the union or somebody else is conducting additional studies to attempt to prove that something that is outlawed by the federal government is really not dangerous. - Frank Coonelly

[Steroids testing and a salary cap] are two very different things... Take the most right wing ballplayer -- take Curt Schilling -- ask him about a salary cap. I imagine they're no more willing to accept it now than before. - Marvin Miller

[Steroids are] not healthy... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group. - Ben Miller

[Reliever Josh Fogg , the Pirates' representative with the MLB Players Association, applauded the union's offer yesterday to increase the penalty to first-time steroids policy offenders from 10 days to 20 games:] Everybody in baseball wants to clean it up. ... With Palmeiro, from what we've seen on TV, it doesn't look like it's working out very well for him. I think there are pretty much a lot of guys who have been scared off. - Rafael Palmeiro

[Morse, in a prepared statement released through the Mariners, said the test results this year showed an] extremely low level ... that the level [of steroids] was so low that it was 'undisputed' that it had 'no performance-enhancing effect' on me. - Michael Morse

[Ken Griffey Jr. 's recent Top 10 segment on David Letterman 's show was edited.] We threw out a few of the answers... They had to do with steroids and David Wells ' drinking. Junior has to face Wells in a month. - Rob Blake

[Fueling momentum for the legislation has been a feeling that Palmeiro's suspension was an affront to Congress. Appearing before a House committee in March, the Orioles slugger swore under oath he had never used steroids.] He got the confidence of all of us... We thought he was a stand-up guy. - Elijah Cummings