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
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.
Rod was a very meaningful person in my life, instrumental in my becoming the player that I was and the person that I am. I loved him a lot.
To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.
Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.
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.
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.
Somebody gets into September with fifty, they have a shot down the stretch to either tie, break or get close to the record.