Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Jose Canseco

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Cuban athlete Jose Canseco.
Last updated on September 12, 2024.
Jose Canseco

José Canseco Capas Jr., nicknamed Parkway Jose, Mr. 40-40 and El Cañonero Cubano, is a Cuban-American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and designated hitter. During his time with the Oakland Athletics, he established himself as one of the premier power hitters in the game. He won the Rookie of the Year (1986), and Most Valuable Player award (1988), and was a six-time All-Star. Canseco is a two-time World Series champion with the Oakland A's (1989) and the New York Yankees (2000).

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.
The national pastime is juiced.
Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly. — © Jose Canseco
Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.
I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.
All I have is the truth, and I've proven 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.
The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
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.
If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.
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?
I get criticized for anything I do.
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 think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.
I can just say exactly what happened.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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'm just basically telling a story of my life.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
I'm tired of justifying what I've said.
Time travel is possible. Will explain later — © Jose Canseco
Time travel is possible. Will explain later
I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.
I've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles.
I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.
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.
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 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.
Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.
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