“This whole episode has caught me totally by surprise. I feel personally betrayed, I feel deceived by Alex.” – Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks.
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“I’m sad for him, because I know what it’s going to do for him, what he has to carry with him, what he’s going to have to put up with for the rest of his life. It’s something you can’t take an eraser to. Now it becomes part of your history.” – Rich Hofman, Rodriguez’s high school baseball coach at Westminster Christian.
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“He claims to be sorry that he used hardcore steroids, but it is obvious that he is only sorry that he got caught. If he was sorry he that he used, he would have admitted it in advance and would not have provided a stone-faced denial to Katie Couric and the American public in 2007 when he claimed he had never used or considered using performance-enhancing drugs. He also would have assisted Congress and Senator Mitchell in their efforts to fix the culture of baseball that he claims led to his cheating. There are obviously many more questions that must be answered.” – U.S. Anti-Doping Agency spokeswoman Erin Hannan.
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ile I was disappointed to learn that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroid use, I admire him for demonstrating the courage to come forward and be honest. A-Rod is one of the most talented players in Major League Baseball and is therefore a role model to so many young people. We are all guilty of making mistakes, but what distinguishes a true hero is the ability to acknowledge those mistakes and the commitment to learn from them.” – Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat who serves on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
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“I was a little disappointed in that because A-Rod will probably be the player of the decade in the 2000s, and the player of the decade probably for the 90s is Ken Griffey Jr. And I’ve just never heard those two guys linked to any kind of enhancement as far as drugs are concerned. So I was a little surprised that A-Rod did that in 2001, 2002 and 2003. I don’t want to listen to all this B.S. on ESPN about how he was a kid and didn’t know what he was doing and stuff like that. I mean, you did it. You admitted it. Go on with your life.” – Pete Rose on SIRIUS XM Radio.
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