Mcgwire Quotes

#1. There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

Eric Davis

#2. I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

Fay Vincent

#3. Mark (McGwire), you know I love you. It's been unbelievable. I wish you could be here with me today. I know you are watching me and I know you have the same feelings for me as I have for you in my heart.

Sammy Sosa

#4. When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Gary Sheffield

#5. The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.

Thomas Boswell

#6. On the Baseball Steroids Scandal People are surprised Mark McGwire did steroids? Look at him! He looks like they should have him in a stall on display at the fair with some poor son of a bitch cleaning up his shit.

Justin Halpern

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

Jose Canseco

#8. Mark (McGwire) is the man.

Sammy Sosa

#9. A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

Jack Canfield

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

Jose Canseco

#11. Mark McGwire is thirty-four years old. I'm twenty-nine. He's probably a little bit tired and I'm just having some fun.

Sammy Sosa

#12. Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.

Bill Dedman

#13. It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

Eric Davis

#14. The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Selena Roberts

#15. You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

Eric Davis

#16. You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

Tony La Russa

#17. Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile ... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Albert Pujols

#18. I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Pete Rose

#19. It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes.

Sammy Sosa

#20. I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

Mark McGwire

#21. The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

Mark McGwire

#22. Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Mark McGwire

#23. I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Mark McGwire

#24. The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

Mark McGwire

#25. Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

Mark McGwire

#26. 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.

Mark McGwire

#27. 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.

Mark McGwire

#28. The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

Mark McGwire

#29. I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

Mark McGwire

#30. 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.

Mark McGwire

#31. 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.

Mark McGwire

#32. 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.

Mark McGwire

#33. Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Mark McGwire

#34. I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Mark McGwire

#35. So be it. I'm happy to bring the country together.

Mark McGwire

#36. In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'

Mark McGwire

#37. What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

Mark McGwire

#38. Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

Mark McGwire

#39. Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.

Mark McGwire

#40. When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

Mark McGwire

#41. I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Mark McGwire

#42. I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

Mark McGwire

#43. I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

Mark McGwire

#44. 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.

Mark McGwire

#45. I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

Mark McGwire

#46. If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

Mark McGwire

#47. I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

Mark McGwire

#48. 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.

Mark McGwire

#49. I'm not here to discuss the past ... I'm here to be positive.

Mark McGwire

#50. My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.

Mark McGwire

#51. Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.

Mark McGwire

#52. 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.

Mark McGwire

#53. I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.

Mark McGwire

#54. Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.

Mark McGwire

#55. I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Mark McGwire

#56. I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

Mark McGwire

#57. I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

Mark McGwire

#58. This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

Mark McGwire

#59. I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

Mark McGwire

#60. Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

Mark McGwire

#61. The only team that could have competed with us was the Cubans. It's too bad they're boycotting. The teams we're playing just can't compete with our power.

Mark McGwire

#62. You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

Mark McGwire

#63. Roger (Maris)
was a class act and I know exactly what he went through.

Mark McGwire