Jose Canseco Quotes

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

The time has come to disregard the exemption. Baseball is no longer a sport.

It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to be in the sports representation business. Being an ex-player, I knew that those were the people I wanted to work with.

I don't really trust the NFL.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

When I was minister of sport in Brazil, I tried to bring in a law that would make the chairmen of clubs reveal their accounts like other businesses. It was turned down, but I think it is an important story that will make a good film.

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

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

I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.

Sports is all about money.

Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

Professional sports is a business.

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.

Being able to run an NBA team at 19 is not easy.

If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.