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

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.

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.

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

His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.

The key is: never fold.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.