Life's Pleasures Quote by Kelli White

Betrayal is doing a lot of work here: it frames Kelli White less as an architect of cheating than as someone sold a story. The line isn’t a denial so much as an indictment of how elite sport can turn chemically assisted success into a “protocol” that sounds almost clinical, even responsible. “Supplements and different drugs” is blunt, but “a certain protocol” softens it, borrowing the language of training plans and sports science to make something illicit feel standardized, manageable, even inevitable.

The key phrase is “made me believe.” White positions belief as something engineered by another person, which points to the power dynamics between athletes and the coaches, doctors, and handlers who control access to expertise and opportunity. In that world, trust is currency. If the gatekeeper tells you the path to “number 1 in the world” is pharmacological, ambition starts to look less like a personal flaw and more like a lever someone else can pull. The subtext is a critique of a system that rewards results so aggressively that the line between guidance and manipulation blurs.

Context matters: White became a central figure in the early-2000s doping scandals, when revelations exposed not just individual choices but networks that professionalized cheating. Her phrasing echoes that moment’s moral accounting: athletes trying to reclaim agency by naming the machinery around them. It’s a confession, but also a bid to relocate guilt from a lone sprinter to an ecosystem that treats bodies as projects and victory as a product.