Jose Canseco
Jose Canseco
José Canseco Capas Jr., is a Cuban-American former Major League Baseballoutfielder, and designated hitter. Canseco has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs during his playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids. After retiring from Major League Baseball, he also competed in boxing and mixed martial arts...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth2 July 1964
CountryCuba
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?
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 thought he had some good qualities. He liked animals, which was good because I grew up on a farm.
I don't know Jose. I was better than Jose then, and I've been better than him his whole career.
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,
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 was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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 am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.