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 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.
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.
Somebody gets into September with fifty, they have a shot down the stretch to either tie, break or get close to the record.
My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family and myself,
Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,
That statement comes from the heart and that's the way it is,
It's going to be a great weekend, a lot of memories. My four years and the four years in the city.