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

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.

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.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.