Jose Canseco Baseball Quotations

I don't know if I'm directly trying to take on the whole baseball establishment. I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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.

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.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.