Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

You never know the limit of a human being.

The medal is not for yourself. It couldn't be done without the support and help of my people, runners, and coaches

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Yeah, ” said Harry. “No more pretending we care what happens when Jupiter and Uranus get too friendly .

The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

I read somewhere, how important it is in life, to not necessarily be strong. But to feel strong.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.