How do i eject a cd rom from the drive...?

Hello All!
How do i eject a cd-rom from the the optical drive when the icon doesn't appear on the desktop? Its just spinning and vibrating.
When I try shutting down the mini, everything happens correctly but the drive just spins and doesn't finish... So I had to unplug the unit. Still nothing...
I am the new owner of a refurbished mid-2010 MACmini.
The disc was an old cd-rom from 2003 with a label. I guess I won't do that again.
HELP!

Hello All,
I tried several sugestions I read else where and this is what worked for me:
Reboot while holding down option key. Shifted to restore disc and tried to eject from disc utility, but no luck. I went to apple and shutdown except that with the drive spinning it wouldn't complet the task. So I unplugged & restarted while holding down the mouse key. The drive grumbled and spit out the disc! Yay!!! I threw said cd-rom across the room!
I hope that I haven't hurt my new baby mini!
Thanks for all your previous posts. They gave me something to try instead of pulling my hair out!
Kudos to you all!!!

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