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 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.
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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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The fans should be happy. That was a great show. They got to watch what baseball is in Cuba.
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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?
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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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Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.
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For you, some of the media and press that follow baseball, it might have been a surprise. It's normal for us. This is the way we play baseball 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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I'd like to recognize the work of the professional ballplayers, who for the first time forgot about the millions (of dollars) they make and thought about themselves to come here and provide a great show. We love and respect the major-leaguers, because most of them come from very humble backgrounds, and have succeeded with hard work, sacrifice and great effort.
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I don't like to make predictions, but the only thing I can assure everyone is that we will give our best to bring the people a great show. Everything else will be left up to what happens on the field.
champion olympic team
This team is the world champion and the Olympic champion. We didn't get that for free.
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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.
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What's happened so far in the Classic is history. For us, the tournament begins today. In the first round, we gained some valuable experience.
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We are running out of time. We have just 20 days.