You never know the limit of a human being.

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.

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

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.

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.

There will be a time, when you ask for nothing but life.

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?