Famous Quotes & Sayings

To the Cubans, and by Cubans I mean the man on the street, this is like the Elgin marbles.

Barack Obama

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

unequivocal signal of support for the Cuban people.

Fidel Castro

Cuba stands by Pakistan in this hour of trial,

Cuba plays the game with an excitement that's very, very healthy to see. When you have your own teammates yelling and screaming at each other, that's something you don't see every day.

Cuba isn't going to give up this decision for lost. The government and the people of the island will keep working for the development of baseball.

Jose Ramirez

Cuba doesn't lose twice to the same team!

To sustain this growth, we need energy, and to get that energy, we are trying to tap all the sources - Cuba is one of them.

We don't understand why Cuban families have to pay the price for an ill-conceived policy.

What Cuba has proved is that we can play up to other levels.

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.

David Maraniss

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

Daisy Fuentes

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

Avery Johnson

We didn't earn our paycheck. We need to give Mark Cuban a rebate, all of us.

Nestor Carbonell

I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.

Bill Cosby

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

Bob DuPuy

We hope that the state department comes through. We would be disappointed if Cuba didn't play.

We don't sit on the U.S. ambassador's lap, nor do we sit on the Cuban ambassador's lap,

Don Cooper

Because he threw like that in Cuba, Duque said, 'Hey, let's go back to being a Cuban pitcher,'

In honor of this film, our opening night feed features Cuban food and Andy, who plays bongos, is scheduled to be part of a band.

It was a wonderful show, what you saw in the field today. This is a Cuban sport being played at its best.

Maria Canals Barrera

I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun.

Fidel Castro

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

Fidel Castro

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

Fidel Castro

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

Fidel Castro

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore,

I guess that stuff is for you guys. We just keep playing down at Cuba and keep working hard.

But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.

Georges expected to slam into Cuba and effect some of the sugar prices.

I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.

Christopher Dodd

demonstrated that an honest and respectable discussion of differences between the United States and Cuba is possible.

Stephen Coonts

It's just people from various walks of life in Cuba and what might happen to them

As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.