Higinio Velez Cuban Quotations

This wasn't a gift. We won this. The Cuban team simply had to come and show the quality of Cuban baseball.

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.

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.

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.

The most important thing is that baseball and the sport won. The quality of Cuban baseball was demonstrated.

I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.

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.