Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some of the players are gone, but ... not all of them were stars. If we go back before the revolution, you will see that a lot of the Cuban players were playing in the major leagues. ... We have a large number of players.

Picasso's lifetime ... reflects a wide diversity of style development and also technical innovation, ... He invented things that we take for granted today (like) the invention of collage, assemblage, cubism -- as a style, his surrealist period which is so rich.

Bill Cosby

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

Carlos Zambrano

I will pitch the same way I pitch for the Cubs with less intensity.

Andrea Navedo

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

Scott Boras

I don't know why people are writing the Cubs aren't in it because they have to trade Sammy Sosa first.

Fidel Castro

I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Dave Roberts

I cut school in '84 to see the Cubs and Padres. This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

There are a lot of splits in households over the heritage and the loss of it. Cubans here are different. Some leave out parts of their heritage.

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Chris Neil

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

Just like the Cubs fans say, there's always next year.

I lost a good friend, ... He was a good Cubs fan like myself and we spent a lot of sad and some happy days there (Wrigley Field).

Jerry Reinsdorf

I felt all 88 of those years. I think I even felt the years that the Cubs haven't won on my shoulders.

Jerry Reinsdorf

I felt all 88 of those years, and felt all those years the Cubs haven't won.

It is a great privilege for all of us to see you here together, ... We feel like we are living a special moment, and that, in Latin America, Cuba is not alone.

I thought he could be what he was in Cuba again, ... He's been even better than I imagined.

Jonah Hill

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

If they're going to read something, let it be the truth, not growing up thinking that the kids in Cuba are living happy lives and that they're free and that they have all the rights that all the other kids in the world have, which they don't.

Lily Tomlin

If the formula for water is H2O, is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?

He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway,

This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.

What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.

When you're 6 years old and you're in my house, you're a scout automatically, ... My dad was involved when he was a kid. I was a tiger cub (at) 6 years old and (I) got started right away.

Jimmy Buffett

We had been talking to the Cubs for a long time about doing this,

Never in the history of Cuba has there been these kinds of meetings between foreigners and representatives of the opposition.

Obviously, I think at some point an organization has to look at the importance of stability. I don't think Cubs have ever really spent time doing that. There's always been a big turnover in personalities.

We have instructed all Cuban firms to start using the euro as of the first of June of this year in transactions with the 11 nations of the European Union as well as several others.

Brit Marling

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.