Richard Pound Quotations

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

I don't know what's behind it all. I'm hoping some of the tests will be definitive one way or the other.

If anything were found, we couldn't do anything because we didn't even exist in 1999, It's important that the truth must always be made clear.

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying, 'Well, I guess we do know how the name got public, we made it possible,'

I said, 'Please, you don't have to offer me a million bucks. I want to do this cause it's right for the Olympics,'

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

You can intimidate some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.

It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.

In future years we have to assume that there will be somebody out there who will be willing to do it.

All this cheating goes on under the supposedly watchful eyes of cycling officials, who loudly proclaim that their sport is drug-free and committed to remaining so. Based on performance, they should not be allowed outdoors without white canes and seeing-eye dogs.

The first practical impact of this could be when the qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics would occur.