Anabolic Steroid Quotations

Oct
24th

Fri

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

Aug
29th

Fri

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.

— Linn Goldberg, professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and founder of ATLAS and ATHENA anti-steroid education programs.

Aug
26th

Tue

Anabolic steroids are the only hormones in the entire Controlled Substances Act, and testosterone, the criminalized steroid by which all others are measured, is naturally present in the bodies of every American man, woman and child.

— Steroid law expert Rick Collins in testimony to United States Sentencing Commission on April 12, 2005

Tired of the ridiculous steroids hearings in Congress? Thank Biden, who led the effort to make steroids a Schedule 3 drug, and has been among the blowhardiest of the blowhards when it comes to sports and performance enhancing drugs.

— Radley Balko, a senior editor for Reason magazine, on Democratic Presidential nominee Barrack Obama’s choice of Senator Joseph Biden as VP candidate posted on The Agitator blog

Aug
12th

Tue

And certainly in the general population I think this could be used as an instant muscle builder, and the nice thing about a drug is you sort of take until you’ve got what you want, and then you stop taking it, and it doesn’t drive the process indefinitely.

— H. Lee Sweeney, Professor and Chairman of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, speaking about potential of IGF-1 gene therapy at The President’s Council on Bioethics on September 13, 2002