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
In spring training, it was one of my goals to get fifty homers. Now everything is basically icing on the cake as far as what I can do to strive for, I surprise myself. It's unbelieveable.
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.
I'd be here all of time. I just don't live here.
You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
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,
Somebody gets into September with fifty, they have a shot down the stretch to either tie, break or get close to the record.