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 know if I'm directly trying to take on the whole baseball establishment. I'm just basically telling a story of my life.
I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
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.
I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.
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.
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.
I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.
Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.
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.
You get them-anywhere. It's-you can go right here to the corner gym and get it. It's that simple. It's that easy. But-obviously, I don't recommend using them or getting them without supervision, or a prescription, because they are illegal.
Well, it's a true statement. No ifs and buts about it,
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,