Quotes by Jose Canseco

About Jose Canseco:

José Canseco Capas, Jr. is a Cuban-American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder, and designated hitter. Canseco has admitted using performance enhancing drugs during his playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids. After retiring from Major League Baseball, he also competed in boxing and mixed martial arts.
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Sure, some people are afraid of steroids. Some people were afraid of fire, too. Afraid of electricity, or of splitting the atom. But I know that the body I have now is far superior to the one I was born with. I, Jose Canseco, have changed my own dest...

Jose Canseco

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

Jose Canseco

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

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Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

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Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely.

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I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It ca...

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Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

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I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

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I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if ...

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Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for...

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I get criticized for anything I do.

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If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

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If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

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I can just say exactly what happened.

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The national pastime is juiced.

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My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

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I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

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The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

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I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

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Author Bio

  • NameJose Canseco
  • DescriptionAmerican baseball player
  • BornJuly 2, 1964
  • CountryCuba; United States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Baseball Player