These are just a few quotes from either players or professionals on cheating, pressure, or the effects of PEDs.
"I used enough mud to build a damn." Hall of Fame member Whitey Ford
"The ball was sometimes so loaded I couldn't throw it back to the mound" Gaylord Perry's catcher, Gene Tenance, on the famous Vasoline balls.
"I actually think the game is cleaner today than when I was playing. Every generation of players- the '20s, '30s, '40s on up- everybody was looking for a way to get the most out of their bodies and they took whatever they possibly could. It was almost expected" Tom House former player said.
"There's not a pitching staff in baseball that doesn't have a guy who defaces the ball...If the umpores want to check things like that, I think half to three-quarters of the league would be suspended" Larry Parrish defending his player who was caught using sandpaper.
"Gaylord is very honorable man, he only calls for the spitter when he needs it," Indians president Gabe Paul when refrerring the the HOF Gaylord Perry and his illegal spitball.
"I tried everything known to man to improve my faastball, and it still didn't go faster than 82 mph, I was a failed experiment" Tom House on his steroid use.
"You can call it cheating. But baseball called it legal. There was no law against taking every drug in the CVS warehouse, no law against doing whatever you could to get stronger andd better," said Mike Celizic a writer for NBC sports.
"Physics cannot tell us whether a particular home run was steroid- assited, or even whether an extraordinary individual performance indicates the use of illicit means" Tobin
"There's very inconsistent data on whether 'roid rage even exists" Versalis
"We know steroids can be used with a reasonable measure of safety. We know this because they're used in medicine all the time, just not to enhance body image or improve athletic performance." Charles Yeasalis, a Penn State epidemiologist and steroid researcher for 25 years
"There is no evidence that steroid use has altered home-run hitting and those who argue otherwise are profoundly ignorant of the statistics of home runs, the physics of baseball, and of the physiological effects of steroids" Arthur DeVany
The quotes are endless.... but these are just a few I have found.
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