Frederich Cepeda
Frederich Cepeda
Frederich Cepeda Cruzis a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball...
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I think the message has been delivered. Baseball is baseball in all parts of the world ? be it in the big leagues, be it amateur. You have to value baseball as such. It's not about the price of the player but the heart with which the baseball is played. Our team is a team that has fought for unity. The soul of our team is unity. There aren't any stars.
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Everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They saw other teams as greater. Yet here we are. Nothing is impossible. You will see in the final. We're prepared for this mentally and physically.
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Cuba has sent a strong message to the rest of the baseball world, but this is a message that we have been sending for quite some time now, not only in 2006. Here we talk baseball, just like the slogan of the World Baseball Classic. And baseball is baseball, it doesn't matter the price paid to the athletes that play it.
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I think this Classic is historic because it demonstrated that not only the players from the paid major leagues can carry the supremacy. We've demonstrated that what matters is sacrifice, human values and the effort you give on the field.
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I'm not happy because I don't like to lose, but Cuba showed that they can play anybody.
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Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.
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This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.
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Cuba has shown the world that we have our heart in baseball. This classic is a historic event. We are not professionals. We don't get paid to play. But we ranked second, well deserved. I don't like losing. But I think we have shown a lot.
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This is the greatest victory in the history of Cuban baseball because our opponents were major-league players.
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From the very beginning, we said that we were going to play baseball. The uncertainty as to whether Cuba was going to be part of it or not in baseball, as we say in Cuba, 'The ball is round.' We have done it now.
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If we could win Monday, it would be the greatest victory in Cuban baseball history.
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What Cuba has proved is that we can play up to other levels.
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What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don't get paid for doing this. We deserve a high place in baseball because we do this with sacrifice, with human value and courage and sportsmanship, and because we give our utmost in order to come to the field and show what good baseball is all about.
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We tried to get back on top, but they deserve the victory because they played better.