Mark McGwire

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”