Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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,

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.

Mike Royko

New York didn't need that 1969 pennant...all Cub fans wanted was that one measly pennant. It would have kept us happy until the twenty-first century. But New York took that from us and I can never forgive that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Billy Corgan

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.

Louie Gohmert

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

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.

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

Mark Buehrle

We're not even recognized in our own city, ... Everybody in this room knows it's a Cubs town.

Davey Johnson

We've been dying to get to Cuba the whole tournament ... They have a very strong team -- this is their Olympic gold team.

Alejo Carpentier

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Diana Nyad

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Derrek Lee

We'll see tomorrow (Wednesday). The Cubs don't want me to play, but if I feel like I can play, I'm going to play. I'm not going to be stupid about it, but if I feel like I'm not hurting anything, I'm going to play.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Carlos Fuentes

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

We're hopeful that Cuba will be able to play.

Venezuela and Cuba don't have anything at risk in Bolivia.

Elliott Abrams

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

Evo Morales

We are here to resolve social problems, economic problems. This movement is not only in Bolivia; Fidel in Cuba and Hugo in Venezuela are logging triumphs in social movements and leftist policies.