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...
baseball cuba experience ideal organizing
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.
continued courage fight team
Our team doesn't give up. Our team continued to fight with courage but it was very difficult.
break happens money player
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?
games limited pitchers playing seven starters
Let me say that our pitchers now have a disadvantage because our pitchers usually have games where they pitch 125 pitches. And here they were limited to 65, 80 or 95. So our starters are used to playing seven or more innings.
cuban large major number players playing revolution
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.
admire bothers face hurts liked states united
I see it as something that really hurts me. It bothers me because we admire the way they play. We would have even liked to face the United States in this tournament.
beginning cuba days people saying shown three
I said it two or three days ago. I said this was only the very beginning of the Classic, and it was not over. People started saying that Cuba would be out and I said to be patient, and just wait. Now we've shown what Cuba can do.
against asian great latin played similar teams
We know the Asians. We have played against the Asians, we know how the Asian teams play, and they're great players. They put everything into the field, great effort, very similar to Latin American players.
baseball demand played president teach win
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.
running
We are running out of time. We have just 20 days.
good hard manly mean men others team
When I said that this was a team made of men and not names, I didn't mean that the others were not men. They're as manly as we are. We're all men and good men and hard men and manly men.
baseball beat cuban sweat wants whoever
This is Cuban baseball. Cuba is not gone. We're still here to play and whoever wants to beat Cuba will have to sweat it out.
gift given
It was not a gift that was given to Cuba. We were put in that pool. It was called the 'death pool,' the 'death group,' and we made it through to the final.
baseball games great
It was a great spectacle. In games like this, baseball wins.