Mark McGwire
Mark McGwire
Mark David "Big Mac" McGwire, is an American former professional baseball player and currently a bench coach in Major League Baseball. As a first baseman, his MLB career spanned from 1986 to 2001 while playing for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He quickly grabbed media attention in 1987 as a rookie with the Athletics by hitting 33 home runs before the All-Star break, and would lead the major leagues in home runs that year with 49, setting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth1 October 1963
CityPomona, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.
I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.
The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.
To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.
I think it's outstanding and I'm ecstatic they invited me,
I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.
Rod was a very meaningful person in my life, instrumental in my becoming the player that I was and the person that I am. I loved him a lot.
My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.
The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It's too bad they're boycotting. The teams we're playing just can't compete with our power.
Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.
I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family and myself,
Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,