Motivation Quote by Evander Holyfield

Holyfield frames steroids less as a scandal and more as a street-level moral math problem: advantage plus risk equals unfairness. The line "I think of an image" is telling. He isn't invoking lab reports or policy jargon; he's talking about a vibe every fighter understands in their bones, the sense that something in the ring doesn't add up. Steroids become a visual shorthand for an opponent who is not just better prepared, but artificially so - and in boxing, where the margins are measured in brain cells and bone density, that "image" carries menace.

His logic is deceptively pragmatic. He doesn't grandstand about purity; he sketches a conditional truce: if it were legal for everybody, maybe it could be "right". That isn't a pro-steroid argument so much as an athlete's way of testing the boundaries of fairness. If rules are the only thing separating "cheating" from "training", then the sport's ethics live and die with regulation, not with personal virtue. Holyfield is acknowledging the uncomfortable truth that elite competition is already an arms race; banning steroids is society deciding which weapons are too ugly to normalize.

Then he lands where boxing always lands: harm. "Because it can hurt people seriously" is both public-health reasoning and self-defense. Boxing already asks the body to absorb sanctioned violence; adding chemistry that escalates power or endurance doesn't just tilt competition, it raises the cost of losing. The subtext is a quiet insistence that safety, not sanctimony, is the final referee.