All we wanted to do was to show the quality of Cuban baseball. |
I'm very happy. With so many foreign broadcast journalists watching, it was a good opportunity to see that Cuban baseball players play well anywhere in the world and at any level. |
Our baseball is not for-rent baseball. Our team plays for the love of the game, for the love of the uniform we wear. We play for the love we have for our country. |
That was a very difficult play. For one or two innings I had to realize that it was raining, that the grass was wet, and that when you have synthetic turf wet it is difficult to catch a ball and grasp it very well. I threw it home and I had to do it at full blast, not just an easy throw, a weak throw, but I had to do it full blast, and it worked out well. |
That was the play of the game. It was raining, the grass was wet, and when you have wet synthetic turf it is difficult to catch a ball and grasp it very well. I threw it home as hard as I could, because a soft throw wouldn't work, and it worked out well. |
They play with one objective, we play with another. They play rental baseball. We play for the love of the jersey, for the love of where we come from. |
This was our first game, the one that gave us butterflies and we are happy that we were able to break the ice with a victory. |
We've seen the quality of these other players. I think they play with other objectives in mind than we do. One thing that separates us from them is the unity we have on our team. |
You feel a little pressure. But we are prepared. We're not worried. |