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...
assure best bring great happens left people
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.
baseball regret sorry wonderful
I do feel regret and feel sorry that they're not here because it is wonderful baseball what you see in the U.S..
best cause cuba great happened lost means mercy pitchers team
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.
cuban
I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.
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.
baseball games great
It was a great spectacle. In games like this, baseball wins.
athletes interested people turn
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.
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 fans great watch
The fans should be happy. That was a great show. They got to watch what baseball is in Cuba.
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.
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.
best usual velocity
He wasn't his best today, he didn't have his usual velocity or his control.