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
I chose to be retired. I chose to start a family. That was one of the biggest reasons I got away from the game of baseball. I wanted to start a family. I was happy.
What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.
I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter
I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
I'm ecstatic they even thought about me taking the number down and being here for the weekend, ... It's going to be outstanding. How can it not be with all of the history here and how the fans are going to be treated to a fantastic new stadium next year?
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'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.
This is a season I will never forget and I hope everybody in baseball never forgets.
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 have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family and myself,