Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

Canseco started the 1985 season with the Class-AA Huntsville Stars and became known as "Parkway Jose" for his long home runs (25 in half a season) that went close to the Memorial Parkway behind Joe Davis Stadium. In May 2008 Canseco revealed that he had lost his house in Encino California to foreclosure saying his two divorces had cost him $7 to $8 million each. The 5 ft 9 in (1.

José Canseco Capas Jr. Canseco is the identical twin brother of former major league player Ozzie Canseco. Canseco has admitted using performance enhancing drugs during his playing career and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book Juiced: Wild Times Rampant 'Roids Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids.