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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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.
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This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.
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Both teams played great baseball. Two days ago we told everyone to wait patiently for today's game... This is what Cuban baseball is all about. Our players wanted to come back strong after losing in a mercy rule game and they came through.
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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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The most important thing is that baseball and the sport won. The quality of Cuban baseball was demonstrated.
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I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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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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We are running out of time. We have just 20 days.
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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.
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For us, the Classic starts today and the rest is history.