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
This is a season I will never forget and I hope everybody in baseball never forgets.
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.
I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
The steroids I did were on a very, very low dosage. I didn't want to take a lot of that. I didn't want to look like Arnold Schwartzenegger or Lou Ferrigno.
I've moved on from it and I wish the media would, ... I've made my statement in Washington, that's my statement, and when I left Washington that's the last time I was ever going to talk about it, and that's really about it.
I've moved on from it and I wish the media would. It's pretty simple. I made my statement in Washington. That's my statement.
Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
I'd be here all of time. I just don't live here.
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.