“ I take steroids because they help me an extra 5 percent. Women take the (contraception) pill. They are somewhat similar. I do it under a doctor’s supervision. „
02/24/2009
02/24/2009
“ It was what I had to do to compete. The danger with steroids is over-usage. I only did it before a difficult competition — for two months, but not for a period of time that would harm me. And then afterward it was over. „
Arnold Schwarzenegger admitting use of anabolic steroids in 1996 quoted in “Conan the Politician by Tom Farrey”
02/24/2009
“ Steroids have been used since the late ’60s. They produce less problems than aspirin or anything else. „
Joe Weider defense of anabolic steroids appearing in “L.A. Magazine: The Hush-Hush Deal That Made Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor,” by Ann Louise Bardach (September 2004)
02/22/2009
“ There is no way to truly solve baseball’s steroid problem. In fact, I don’t even consider it a problem. I don’t care about the long-term health risks. I don’t know these guys. I don’t care if they live or die. Using steroids is their choice, and if they choose yes, and it provides me a more exciting athletic spectacle, great. „
Mark Madden writing op-ed “What’s wrong with steroids?” in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1, 2002
02/16/2009
“ There are a couple of things that I’ve always thought about performance-enhancing drugs. You know, Gatorade is a performance-enhancing drug. Anything with electrolytes is performance-enhancing. Who decides what you can use and what you can’t and on what basis is it decided? That’s always amazed me. Why can you use this and you can’t use that? Every time I turn on television there’s an energy drink being advertised. Why isn’t that performance-enhancing? „
Bob Knight, speaking on ESPN Radio about Alex Rodriguez admitted steroid use, February 11, 2009
02/16/2009
“ The most rigorous drug testing systems have loopholes through which I could drive every M1 Abrams tank we own, and not scrape the body armor. „
Charles Yesalis, professor of health policy and administration of exercise and sport science at Penn State University
01/28/2009
“ It’s not just a drug that can be taken lightly. It’s something that we still consider extremely dangerous to the public and we’re going to investigate it to its fullest, just as if it were heroin, cocaine or marijuana. „
DEA Special Agent Violet Szeleczky speaking about the dangers of steroids during the sentencing of Kenneth Hebert and Leticia Zamora as part of Operation Raw Deal. ”Pearland couple to be sentenced for operating major steroid pill mill,” January 27, 2009.
12/01/2008
“ As used by most people, including athletes, the adverse effects of anabolic steroids appear to be minimal. They do not cause cancer, they do not cause kidney failure, they do not cause much of anything except an increase in lean muscle mass. „
Dr. Mauro di Pasquale, anabolic steroid expert in “What’s So Bad About Performance Enhancement?” In LA Weekly on December 20, 2007.
10/24/2008
“ I have chemically restructured by body, giving myself one of the best physiques in the world and enabling myself to do things at forty that most twenty-year-old kids couldn’t do. Best of all, I have prepared myself to maintain that body for years to come. My strength, vitality, and appearance are my best argument for what I’m saying. If I were exaggerating the effect that growth hormone and steroids can have when used properly and carefully as part of a program of weight lifting, fitness, careful nutrition, and clean living, then why would I look and feel as good as I do? „
Jose Canseco claims anabolic steroids made him look good, strong and health in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 277)
10/24/2008
“ I’ve never seen any sign of this so-called ‘roid rage in any other baseball players, and I’ve never felt anything like that affecting me. Does using steroids ever alter your moods? I’m sure in some ways it can, yes. Any chemical, if used incorrectly, can alter your mood. Then again, a lot of things can do that. Spending too much time in traffic can do that. Or eating too much of one food. But people love their stereotypes, and the steroid-crazed athlete is one that’s been spread by the media for years. „
Jose Canseco discusses the proper use of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 259-260)
10/24/2008
“ Carefully controlling the amounts of steroids you take, administering them at the proper time - that’s the way to make them work for you, without risking your health. Like most chemicals that can help you, steroids would be dangerous if used in too large a quantity. Just consider the example of Botox, whose popularity has now spread from Hollywood. As most people know, Botox is used to paralyze muscles to stop the aging process in the face. But Botox is also poisonous - it’s a form of botulism, the poison, which can kill you. The key is knowing how to use it without taking undue risks. That’s exactly the way to think of steroids: Sure, they can be deadly if used in ridiculously large amounts, the way some out-of-control weight-lifters do. But if you’re smart, and careful, and know what you’re doing, you can use them to reach your true potential. „
Jose Canseco discusses the proper use of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 224-225)
10/24/2008
“ I believe every steroid out there can be used safely and beneficially - it’s all a question of dosage. Some steroids you cycle off and on, depending on the dose. You just have to make sure you give your liver enough time to filter them out. There are other steroids that have very low toxicity levels. Those can be taken continuously by most healthy people. It just depends. Growth hormone? You can use that all year round. Same thing with your Equipoise, your Winstrols, your Decas - taken properly, those are fine all year round. But something like Anadrol, and some high dosages of testosterone - those have to be moderated, taken more selectively. This is all important because when ballplayers talk about steroids, they really mean a combination of steroids and growth hormone, and that requires some serious planning if you don’t want to get yourself in trouble. „
Jose Canseco discusses the safety of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 6)
10/24/2008
“ Jose Canseco discusses the health benefits of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Yes, you heard me right: Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. Certain steroids, used in proper combinations, can cure certain diseases. Steroids will give you a better quality of life and also drastically slow down the aging process.
If people learn how to use steroids and growth hormone properly, especially as they get older - sixty, seventy, eighty years old - their way of living will change completely. If you start young enough, when you are in your twenties, thirties, and forties, and use steroids properly, you can probably slow the aging process by fifteen or twenty years. I’m forty years old, but I look much younger - and I can still do everything the way I could when I was twenty-five.
„Jose Canseco discusses the health benefits of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
(page 3)
10/24/2008
“ Jose Canseco discusses the future of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
We’re talking about the future here. I have no doubt whatsoever that intelligent, informed use of steroids, combined with human growth hormone, will one day be so accepted that everybody will be doing it. Steroid use will be more common than Botox is now. Every baseball player and pro athlete will be using at least low levels of steroids. As a result, baseball and other sports will be more exciting and entertaining. Human life will be improved, too. We will live longer and better. And maybe we’ll love longer and better, too.
We will be able to look good and have strong, fit bodies well into our sixties and beyond. It’s called evolution, and their is no stopping it. All these people crying about steroids in baseball now will look as foolish in a few years as the people who said John F. Kennedy was crazy to say the United States would put a man on the moon. People who see the future earlier than others are always feared and misunderstood.
„Jose Canseco discusses the future of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
08/29/2008
“ Unlike many other drugs, kids don’t admit it because it’s not cool to be on steroids, not to mention the fact that it makes you paranoid. „
