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You think I'll need this?

To reporters with reference to his role as DH; shortly after reporting to spring training, while shuffling through his locker, peeling the plastic off a new baseball glove

José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH

I think if you can grab the average fan and bring them out here and have somebody throw it 95 mph, I think the first five or six pitches they probably would not even see. You have to condition your eyes to pick the baseball up. If you can imagine putting a flashlight in a dark room up against the wall and make circles, moving it as quickly as possible, darting in and out, back and forth, that's what a baseball looks like.

On what a batter sees of a major league fastball

José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH

A waste. It isn't how far, it's how far fair.

Upon hitting a ball that went over concession stands, seats, and completely out of the Oakland Coliseum, but was foul

José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH

I don't mind hitting sixth. It's the RBI spot.

Spoken with a smile

Vinny Castilla
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
3B

Other than strike one, it might be the most important pitch in baseball.

On the changeup

Richard Allen "Rick" Williams
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Pitching Coach

People love home runs. Not just home runs, but long home runs. The kind you don't think, "Is it out?" The kind you think, "How far out is it?" The kind where (a hitter) can just stand and watch. It's power. It's strength. It's the complete domination of a baseball.

José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH

I thought (Tampa Bay) could have gotten a Twix bar or something.

On the Yankees picking him up off of waivers for $20,000.00

José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH
Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

Just about the three greatest pitches on Earth.

Commenting on Pedro Martinez's fastball, slider and changeup

Chuck LaMay
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
General Manager

I'm going for the record, most DL trips with 500 home runs.

September 13, 2000
José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH

I've been from the best player in the world to a bum, washed up, I've been through so much in the game, more probably than anybody else.

September 13, 2000

José Capas Canseco
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
DH

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