Quotes from Mark McGwire

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

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

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.'

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

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

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 have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

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.

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.

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

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