Making good choices in a culture of steroids

There's a guy from my hometown who made it as high as Triple-A for the Seattle Mariners organization in the late 1990s-early 2000s. He owns a roofing company now and back when the Mitchell Report was coming out he was putting a roof on my parents house and I got to talking with him about steroids. He claimed that they were rampant. Everywhere. Easy to get and widely used. He told me a story about how when he was nearing the end of his baseball career. He had basically maxed out his full natural potential and realized that he was never going to achieve his dream of making it to the majors. He saw several other people in the organization in this same boat and they decided to begin using steroids just to get them over the hump, enough to get up to the majors for a cup of coffee. He considered it but never did. He said that he saw the effects that it had on other players and had too much respect for himself, his family, and his children to do that to his body. He also considered the act of using performance-enhancing drugs morally wrong. Although he never made it to the majors, he still considers his decision to be the right one. I do too.