Jose Canseco Quotations

We spoke about it quite in depth. And-you know when I op-when-when I rejoined the team back in '97, we'd be working out-talking about it. You know we'd go into clubhouses and do steroids. Bottom line.

Maybe not accomplish the things I did, the freakish things I did, being 6'4

I don't know Jose. I was better than Jose then, and I've been better than him his whole career.

I had it analyzed at the lab. It was speed!

He is incredible. No one can even stand in his shoes - not Babe Ruth, not anyone. He's in a league of his own.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

I think people are now realizing, or starting to realize, that every word, more or less, I said in the book is the absolute truth,

I thought he had some good qualities. He liked animals, which was good because I grew up on a farm.

Well, it's a true statement. No ifs and buts about it,

There is a danger of possibly glorifying the so-called author scheduled to testify today by indirectly assisting him to sell more books through his claim that what he was doing was somehow good for his country or the game of baseball.

Every time I've tried to help a woman, I've been incarcerated. I've learned my lesson. I'm not doing it again.

There could be a metabolite from the past. No one really knows how long steroids last in your actual system.

There could be a metabolite from the past, ... No one really knows how long steroids last in your actual system.

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

You get them-anywhere. It's-you can go right here to the corner gym and get it. It's that simple. It's that easy. But-obviously, I don't recommend using them or getting them without supervision, or a prescription, because they are illegal.

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.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Spend a Day with Canseco on the Hill.

They're taking decent steps. They're going to get rid of steroids little by little. The answer is not having Bud Selig do his own private witch hunt.

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.

I injected him probably twice. But it wasn't like-I mean we would just walk in and-a lot of times they were pill form. A lot of times, you know, you would just-a quick injection of whatever and that's it.

I'm completely impressed by how many people he knows,

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.

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.

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.

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.

And I was alone there. The most miserable time I've ever had -- the most depressed I've ever been -- was in that house.

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

I get criticized for anything I do.

The national pastime is juiced,

Time travel is possible. Will explain later

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.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier,

I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.

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

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 I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

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

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.

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

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

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

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've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles.

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

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

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

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

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 can make a super athlete-incredible. Just legendary.

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?

An athlete-an athlete may prepare his needle and may ask another athlete to inject him quickly. And that's the way it works.