Yoenis Cespedes quote: "My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate."

Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other ba...
YOENIS CESPEDES

The system has not only put out a lot of major-league talent but it's still very deep in guys that a...
BILL GEIVETT

If we don't develop players at the junior level, we are not going to have players for the national t...
DAVID GILBERT

We are all amateur players in Cuba. We don't have anybody playing outside of the country. Therefore,...
YOANDRY GARLOBO

They were two of the better ones for sure. They gained the respect of the other coaches in the leagu...
SHANE VOSS

The players are tired because they are treated like objects, not like professionals. They deserve re...
CARLOS GONZALEZ

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed ...
BORIS SPASSKY

It's a tough league. It's not the D-I level, but there are many great players in this league and it'...
ANTONIO FITZGERALD

The league itself has so many good players on every team that the quality of basketball that?s being...
JIM LARRANAGA

This is kind of a 'Joe' team. There really are not many name players on the team. It doesn't mean th...
AL GROH

Players on the all-league team usually have the benefit of playing on wining teams, and Solomon has ...
ROBERT MCCULLUM

They have major-league players. So people know now that we can play against major-league players.
FREDERICH CEPEDA

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in...
ARSENE WENGER

When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS...

There were players on the Olympic team like Abby Wambach, Shannon Boxx and Heather Mitts who were no...
MARK KRIKORIAN

IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE

i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL

A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE

If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE

He's not leaving one stone unturned. Just because these are major-league players, he's not taking fo...
JEFF MANTO

When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players wer...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My mentor was my grandfather. My father worked in the fields and often was not at home for several d...
GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR

The team was ravaged by illness early in the season, resulting in numerous games being played with s...
DAVE PISTONE

Francesc has won three championships here. There are not many players that can say that. There are s...
PAUL KOSTIN

I am having discussions regarding the mandatory use of visors in our league with the stakeholders in...
DAVE ANDREWS

We are all amateur players, therefore playing against major league players is the greatest victory f...
FREDERICH CEPEDA

Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS

Torch and I go back a long way, ... We first got acquainted in the Central League when I was in Fort...
BILL MCDONALD

I am more on the conservative side in everything in life, and James is not as conser-vative and a lo...
BRIAN BARKER

Of the 22 starting players, 14 are new. Many of our players have not played together at the varsity ...
BOB WEINHOLD

They're not just on the team because they are from the local area. Both of these girls are very dese...
AMY HUGHES

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name o...
JIM MORRIS

We're not limited in any way at all. I would say half my team can play different positions. Our stro...
MARK PEARSON

He was one of the catalysts of the team. We would not have gone far without him. His determination w...
ALVIN JAMES

The largest thing is the team cohesion. Working as a team, not as 11 players.
CORRIE ADAMS

He did a lot, not only for me, but for this team, for the young players. He did a phenomenal job.
PAUL PIERCE

You just look at that team. The caliber of players they have. They're not going to be intimidated.
GREG BRUNNER

Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, ...
TUCKER ELLIOT

We weren't scoring a lot of goals [earlier in the season] and Dickie was playing a lot and plus-minu...
EDDIE OLCZYK

It's just an honor to get this award. I want thank all the players. It shows a lot of respect that t...
ALBERT PUJOLS

In Puerto Rico everybody is so excited because they have not seen so many big-league players before....
JAVIER VAZQUEZ

At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just ...
RAFAEL BENITEZ

They're great kids and I feel fortunate to have been able to coach them. Not only are they good bask...
BLAINE LOPEZ

He was so revered by his teammates as well as other major league players. He might have been the mos...
TOM KELLY

Yeah, they'd be on the tour making money and earning a living to put food on the table. On the Divis...
CHASE HODGES

There's been such a big emphasis on the 3-point shot that not many players shoot the ball off the dr...
FRED CARTER

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafte...
WALTER DEAN MYERS

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

He's a big guy, that can be an adequate blocker. You look around the league and there are a lot of t...
CHRIS TURNER

There was no continuity. There wasn't much in the way of crossover regarding the roster or coaching....
JERRY COLANGELO

We have to stop their big three. They are three of the best players in the league at their positions...
DANNY CLARK

It was an easy decision and has been received very well. When the players were told pre-training the...
GRANT MAYOR

We had some fun with the Bristol name, but there were the barnstorming teams that created the first ...
PAUL MELVIN

This is the right way. This is good because on a national team you can't have 12 star players. You n...
ANDRES NOCIONI

You need players like them to win the Stanley Cup and they certainly deserve this great honor. They ...
JEAN BELIVEAU

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professi...
ROBIN YOUNT

That is when Brian took it upon himself to give the team a little talk, a little speech. He told the...
WARDIE SAIN

I do not agree with this theory that a goalkeeper needs security. Both players have raised their lev...
JURGEN KLINSMANN

This is the greatest victory in the history of Cuban baseball because our opponents were major-leagu...
FREDERICH CEPEDA

I always thought the best players in the world were in the major leagues. This tournament shows that...
AKINORI OTSUKA

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the...
DAVID HORSEY

We've said all along that the farm system and the players who come through it are Dan's report card....
CHARLIE MONFORT

[The conference] only has two players in the league who were on the all A-Sun team last year. We hav...
FRANK BENNETT

They [former England players] probably stopped believing, whereas a lot of players in the current te...
ANDREW STRAUSS

My view hasn't changed. We're just not ready for Major League Baseball.
JEFF BEAVER

I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game -- they were our b...
DON HASKINS

It would only be normal and it would show a little respect to the clubs that release their players t...
SEPP BLATTER

There's a situation that could arise where multiple teams affiliated with the same D-League team hav...
STU JACKSON

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES

We are not players, we are observers.
ALAA ABDEL FATTAH

(The players) may not be giddy. But I?m still giddy.
PAT FLANNERY

Defensively, he's a Major League second baseman, so that's not an issue. We know [the offense] is in...
MARC GUSTAFSON

A lot of major-league stadiums didn't have them. In the last 16 years, obviously, the game has chang...
BILL SMITH

I came out of retirement not just to help qualification but also because this team has the players w...
ZINEDINE ZIDANE

We were a .500 team and not very impressive. Lately, we've upped it a bit and a lot of players are p...
AL SCATES

I had a rant and lost it a bit but lost it for the team not for myself. These players have given eve...
ROY MCFARLAND

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that h...
BOB HAMILTON

The benefits to both clubs are obvious. The quality of the A-League being what it is, this is a supe...
ALLAN JONES

I think it's become the premier all-star game in the state. It's still during the school years so mo...
BRUCE DICK

It's not only that we talk to them. The league does a good job, and the players association, of goin...
SCOTT SKILES

I'm not upset about it, not disappointed about it. I think they need that. I really do, because thes...
MIKE DAVIS

That Auburn game was embarrassing. We had a lot of fussing going on with defensive players. We were ...
LANCE LAURY

Whether they had the new players or not, they're still a team we're not familiar with. They're a com...
AMADO GUEVARA

They are an excellent team. Obviously they are some of the best players in the nation. It's not very...
JENNIFER ROCKWOOD

The thing I remember most about middle school was how tough it was. You're not quite an adult, but y...
JEN WATERS

A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. T...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

It will be a much tougher game this time [than in December]. Everybody was kind of feeling their way...
ED SENNETT

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the begin...
OLIVER SIM

The national team players are very serious to perform well in the competition.
HABIBUL BASHAR

There are so many players on my team that won't make the headlines that are awesome. They're so good...
PETER BROCK

The bottom line of that '92 team is we were in complete control of everything that was happening in ...
JEFF SAUER

This year's crop of North Texas ODP players boasts some of the best youth talent in the country. The...
JAIME FRIAS

In Life there are both active players and passive players -- active players are creators of opportun...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role...
ABBY WAMBACH

We've got a lot of leadership on this team in those two players. Both of them are looked up to by ev...
MARK MEDOW

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.
ANTHONY CRABTREE

We have so many players going both ways — we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.
ANTHONY CRABTREE

A scrimmage is not the same as an official game but at the same time it was physical because nobody ...
FRANCISCO PALENCIA

My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

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