Higinio Velez
Higinio Velez
Higinio Vélez Carriónis a Cuban baseball manager. After leading Santiago de Cuba to three straight championships in the Cuban National Series, he became the manager of the Cuban national baseball team, which he led to the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics...
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I feel regret and sorrow that the U.S. is not here because it is wonderful baseball. It really hurts me. It bothers me because we admire the way they play, and we would have liked to face the U.S. in this tournament.
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Now we've shown what Cuba can do. Now we've seen the courage of the players when they went out into the field.
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We want to be a part of the tournament, and I think Cuba would be an ideal place because it already has experience organizing baseball events.
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I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.
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This is what we wanted to see -- this is Cuban baseball. Our boys recovered from the knockout that we suffered. Today was great, wonderful baseball.
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They're not interested in millions. We don't have prisoners. Simply, our athletes are besieged because people want to turn them into merchandise, but they want to play for their country.
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That means that Cuba is a great team because if not it would have lost many times under the mercy rule. But that's only happened twice. Our second-line pitchers did not come through and we couldn't use our best pitchers today. That was the fundamental cause of our defeat.
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Hosting games in the next event is the maximum ambition that any country that loves baseball could have.
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Both teams played great baseball. Two days ago we told everyone to wait patiently for today's game... This is what Cuban baseball is all about. Our players wanted to come back strong after losing in a mercy rule game and they came through.
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We are running out of time. We have just 20 days.
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The President did not demand us to win the tournament, but he told us that we should play well, and teach the world how baseball is played in Cuba.
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Our team doesn't give up. Our team continued to fight with courage but it was very difficult.
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This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.
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Our players, when they play, don't think, I'm going to break my hand. Because the player that has money sometimes thinks, What happens if I break my hand?