Top 35 Jose Canseco Quotes About Life (BASEBALL)

Top 14 Most Famous Jose Canseco Quotes (BEST)

I'm not trying to be the next Babe Ruth. I'm trying to be the first Jose Canseco. — I’m not trying to be the next **Babe Ruth**. I’m trying to be the first Jose Canseco.

And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that. — And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of **life**. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That’s it. It doesn’t get any simpler than that.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth. — I support the **truth**, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

I don't think about making history. I just try to play the game the best way I know how. — I don’t think about making history. I just try to play the game the best way I know how.

I'm not a role model. Just because I can hit a baseball doesn't mean I should be worshiped like some kind of hero. — I’m not a role model. Just because I can hit a baseball doesn’t mean I should be worshiped like some kind of hero.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique. — If you look at our world, it’s a world of critique.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. — If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. — My **motive**, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That’s my motive.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. — The fans **love** the home runs, the home run **competition** between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life. — I’m just basically telling a story of my life.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that. — All I have is the truth, and I’ve proven that.

15 Jose Canseco Quotes About Steroids

“Sure, some people are afraid of steroids. Some people were afraid of fire, too. Afraid of electricity, or of splitting the atom. But I know that the body I have now is far superior to the one I was born with. I, Jose Canseco, have changed my own destiny and become more than just an athletic superstar — I have become a superman. A god!”
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I don't think steroids should be banned. Don't get me wrong, they're dangerous, but so are cigarettes and alcohol. — I don’t think steroids should be banned. Don’t get me wrong, they’re dangerous, but so are cigarettes and alcohol.

The challenge is not to find a top player who has used steroids. The challenge is to find a top player who hasn't. — The **challenge** is not to find a top player who has used steroids. The challenge is to find a top player who hasn’t.

Steroids, used correctly, will not only make stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. — Steroids, used correctly, will not only make stronger and sexier, they will also make you **healthier**.

“I don’t recommend steroids for everyone, and I don’t recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I’ve experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete – incredible. Just legendary.”
Jose Canseco

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

“Sure I tampered with my body chemistry — and I emerged more than human! It’s only a matter of time before an entire race of people are raised on steroids, and who knows what they’ll be able to accomplish? Live to 150 years old, remain sexually potent into your nineties, interbreed with dolphins and whales, there’s literally no limit to what steroids can do for a person. Do you know what it means to feel like God?”
Jose Canseco

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

“These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what – what their stats would be without steroids? It’s impossible to tell.”
Jose Canseco

“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.”
Jose Canseco

“Are we to say that any individual who’s on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who’s not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?”
Jose Canseco

“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.”
Jose Canseco

“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.”
Jose Canseco

“I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren’t for the use of steroids – I’m not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I’d probably be a wreck.”
Jose Canseco

“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.”
Jose Canseco