Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

I'm Cuban and I always will be.

The day I pitch, I feel confident I can stop the other team.

Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.

It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.

I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

I know I'm honest and dependable, usually. I know I'm always dependable for my wife. I'm always at home and I'm always there to help.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Try and benefit others, animals, the whole of the earth, as much as you can. And in that space, challenge yourself to find what it is you can bring about through your life's work.

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'