Jose Canseco Baseball Quotations

I don't know if I'm directly trying to take on the whole baseball establishment. I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

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 you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

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

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