Jose Canseco Quotes & Sayings

I 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 Canseco

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened. — Jose Canseco

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life. — Jose Canseco

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that. — Jose Canseco

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball. — Jose Canseco

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that. — Jose Canseco

The national pastime is juiced. — Jose Canseco

Time travel is possible. Will explain later — Jose Canseco

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? — Jose Canseco

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes. — Jose Canseco

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique. — Jose Canseco

Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely. — Jose Canseco

I get criticized for anything I do. — Jose Canseco

The challenge is not to find a top player who has used steroids. The challenge is to find a top player who hasn't. — Jose Canseco

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 Canseco

I'm tired of justifying what I've said. — Jose Canseco

I 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 Canseco

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth. — Jose Canseco

The 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 Canseco

And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that. — Jose Canseco

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. — Jose Canseco

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be. — Jose Canseco

I can just say exactly what happened. — Jose Canseco

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. — Jose Canseco

Sure, some people are afraid of steroids. Some people were afraid of fire, too. Afraid of electricity, or of splitting the atom. But I know that the body I have now is far superior to the one I was born with. I, Jose Canseco, have changed my own destiny and become more than just an athletic superstar
I have become a superman. A god! — Jose Canseco

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated. — Jose Canseco

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. — Jose Canseco

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. — Jose Canseco

These 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 Canseco

I'm just basically telling a story of my life. — Jose Canseco

I've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles. — Jose Canseco

Sure I tampered with my body chemistry
and I emerged more than human! It's only a matter of time before an entire race of people are raised on steroids, and who knows what they'll be able to accomplish? Live to 150 years old, remain sexually potent into your nineties, interbreed with dolphins and whales, there's literally no limit to what steroids can do for a person. Do you know what it means to feel like God? — Jose Canseco

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier, — Jose Canseco

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly. — Jose Canseco

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. — Jose Canseco