I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.