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

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.

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.

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

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.

[Working with Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail.

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.