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.
Jose CansecoThese 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.
Jose CansecoThe 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.
Jose CansecoI think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.
Jose CansecoThe fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Jose CansecoI 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.
Jose CansecoSteroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.
Jose CansecoI 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.
Jose CansecoAre 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?
Jose CansecoI've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles.
Jose CansecoOwners, 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.
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