At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

I remember my rookie hazing. It wasnt fun.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

I'm definitely not a "Fast and a Furious" guy.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.