You can’t really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete’s worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.
Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, ‘No, this not real cheating.’ So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that’s what we find, is that we’re basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
I won the Daytona 500. I won these races twice. I knew I didn’t need anything cheating on my part.
I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I’m cheating on her.
I’m trying to work on it – not cheating, stopping in the ‘D’ zone, all that kind of stuff.
Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth’s resources for everyone’s well-being.
Cheating is nothing to be proud of.
It’s important that the Olympics are motivating to young people and inspiring to all, and the only way to do that is to ensure clean performances, free of cheating.
