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.

Bill Cosby

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

Andy Garcia

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

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.

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

unequivocal signal of support for the Cuban people.

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.

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

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

Avery Johnson

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

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.

Mark Cuban made mention of all the Wild Turkey he thought would be flowing at Southwest Airlines, and we would hate to disappoint him.

Mark Cuban has a nicer plane. Michael has been a lot more help to us.

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.

Al Hirt

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

Nestor Carbonell

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

Fidel Castro

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

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.

No, there is no defection. The Cuban team is in very high spirits. The aspirations from when we left Havana have been multiplied.

The visit of the pope is to the church, to the Cuban people, ... To talk about a visit to the regime means devaluing somewhat this visit.

the U.S. government is delusional with the idea that it can overthrow the Cuban revolution.

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

This is a Cuban sport being played at its best. We thought Venezuela (and the DR) were ... strong teams and they could have made it to the final. But they didn't; Cuba did. It seems to us that we deserve to be here.

This is a Cuban sport being played at its best.