-- WWE Hall of Famer "Million Dollar" Man Ted DiBiase, August 23, 2010, in an interview with The Courier in the U.K. "I took steroids (during my WWF career) for a very short time. It should be obvious by looking at me that I didn't take them regularly because I was in good shape, but I was never massive. My strength was my ability to talk and my work in the ring. I always looked like an athlete but I didn't look like Charles Atlas.

"The thing about the steroids was I was always afraid of them and I finally had a doctor tell me about the effects and that warned me right off them - that was it for me with that stuff. The only other drug I took for a while was cocaine. Now this doesn't sound like the Million Dollar Man, but I stopped doing that because I was cheap - I didn't want to spend the money on it!"

-- Former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, June 2010, in an interview with BusinessWeek on steroids: "There's some evidence sometimes of muscle disease, or cardiac disease, but it's really hard to know because you didn't know the condition of the performer's heart, or whatever, prior to. So I still don't think we know the long-term effects of steroids. They are continuing to study it more and more, but I don't believe there are a lot of studies out there today that are conclusive."

Ed Patru, Linda McMahon's campaign spokesman, in response: "Linda clearly is opposed to illegal drug use. She believes steroid use can have long-term negative physical and psychiatric impact on the body, and those negative impacts obviously are exacerbated with abuse. Furthermore, she supports continuing research on the issue so that the public can better understand the full scope of impact long-term use has on the body. As for the WWE, it has a very clearly defined policy on all illegal drugs."

-- WWE CEO Vince McMahon, July 26, in an interview with Brian Lockhart of the Connecticut Post: "There's not much information that you guys know about steroids other than the media is writing hysterically about them, and maybe they should. I don't know there's really been any great research you can point to that definitely says this is deleterious to your health or in some cases it helps you or whatever ... So I don't think there's enough empirical research done, certainly not by the government."

McMahon continued: "What is abuse of steroids? I don't know what that is. No one can tell you what that is. You can abuse sugar or any other substance or any other drug. There's not enough known about these damn things."

[Torch art credit Wade Keller (c) PWTorch.com]

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