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