Cuban Quotes

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

The national pastime is juiced.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right

I get criticized for anything I do.

I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendar

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

I can just say exactly what happened.

Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely.

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.