That was the most important play of the game. That would have been the tying run.

We're very grateful to all those who did what they could to bring Cuba into the Classic. We'll do everything possible, and also the impossible, to bring this success to Latin America.

We're very grateful for all those who did whatever they could in order to bring Cuba into the Classic. We are here playing, first of all, as Cubans, but we're representing Latin America here, and we'll do everything possible so that we can ... win on behalf of Latin America. We all deserve it.

The Puerto Rican team left its blood on the field.

We left Cuba being amateurs and from the night to morning, we're pros.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.