Quote from "Uncle" Joe Weider - Athletes will take drugs to win

[dantelis]

Quote from Joe Weider from recent article (see http://xtramsn.co.nz/sport/0,,12021-6570687,00.html):

"You know it, I know it, the whole world knows it. They all know that athletes that want to get to the top will take drugs," said Weider,..."Just don't single out bodybuilders. They all do it."

"An athlete wants to win; they would rather win a title in the Olympics and would be happy to die the next day, as long as he wins," said Weider...

"If they are going to be a competitor, they are going to do everything they possibly can to win. There is no way you can stop them, no matter what," he continued. "Wherever you go there is going to be drugs in sport; they go together -- if you want to be a champion."

Ben Weider's quote is funny:

"If they are overdeveloped, I would say some of them are cheating, some of them are using steroids, I don't think all of them. That goes for any sport you can think of," he said. "Do you want to train harder, or do you want to just take drugs and take a short cut? That's what it comes down to."

Is Ben saying that there are actually some bodybuilders in the IFBB that don't use steroids?  Fat chance!  No way the pros can get that big without some steroid use, no matter how good the supplements these days.

[Yorkie T]

QUOTE FROM YORKSHIRE TERRIER - people eat food when theyre hungry.

[JasonH]

Ben is just lying to himself there - he knows that if bodybuilding makes it out into mainstream society he'll have to answer questions like that all the time - he's just priming himself.

[youandme]

QUOTE FROM YORKSHIRE TERRIER - people eat food when theyre hungry.

Ha, Any more famous quotes?

[240 is Back]

Ben Weider's quote is funny:

"If they are overdeveloped, I would say some of them are cheating, some of them are using steroids, I don't think all of them.

monster credibility.  Kinda like Rush limbaugh admitting he was only 'carrying the water' for the republican party by trumpeting their platform for 6 years, even tho he now says he 'secretly disagreed all along'.

monster integrity

[Richard2004]

Uhhh....did "Uncle Joe" also take his FULL DUE CREDIT for creating a Mr. Olympia contest with emphasis on progessively bigger-and-bigger vascular mass monsters...a look that ONLY BB drugs/doping could help achieve along with the HARD training and very gifted genetics!?? 

And then, turning his back on the growing drug problem in IFBB pro. BB by either doing no contest drug testing at all, or only "watered-down" drug testing.

With the men pro. IFBB BBers, Joe helped create a group of "dead-men-walking" pharmaceutical freaks who will reap the whirlwind of serious health problems as they age (as have the former communist East German Olympic swim team members, who only took a small percentage of the dangerous drugs that the pro. IFBB BBers do)! 

With the women pro. IFBB BB competitors, pressured by the Weiders and the IFBB judges to come in "bigger and tighter" each successive year, Joe helped to literally destroy women's pro. IFBB BB competition!   Pro. women BBers, with their heavily doped vascular muscularity,coarse skin, and deep husky voices, NOW "have no place to retreat/go to" with the advent/popularity of the smoother, less massive/vascular, fitness/figure contest "look"...and are now, sadly considered (even in the iron game!) as "she-he's"...and definitely "not feminine"!

[gordiano]

Yes, that may be so. But Joe, bbers are not athletes.


Also, the "athletes" who drug up in other sports, do so for large amounts of money, not peanuts. I can't blame them for using. Bbers, I don't understand why would anyone do so......