Top 100 Cabrera Quotes
#1. Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.
Tim McCarver
#2. The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to become a legend. Cabrera is still honored in Atlanta, and rightfully so, for winning the 1992 NLCS vs. Pittsburgh.
Tucker Elliot
#3. My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.'
Melky Cabrera
#6. There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#7. Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#8. My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#9. How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
Santiago Cabrera
#10. The crocodile on the bus goes
snap, snap, snap
Jane Cabrera
#11. I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#12. People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.
Ryan Cabrera
#14. It's good being yhe king. Knowing that you put in 100 percent to be where your at right now.
Alex Cabrera
#18. I've only seen a handful of short clips of my U.S. Open win. I remember how I did it; I don't need to watch a video.
Angel Cabrera
#19. If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite ... wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.
Ryan Cabrera
#20. If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.
Miguel Cabrera
#21. I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.
Angel Cabrera
#22. When you've got guys on base, you have to hit. I concentrate on getting it done.
Miguel Cabrera
#26. Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.
Ryan Cabrera
#27. I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.
Miguel Cabrera
#28. Cookies are unbelievable. I have a problem, I eat like, four to five a day.
Ryan Cabrera
#29. I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying.
Angel Cabrera
#31. It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.
Miguel Cabrera
#33. When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#34. Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it.
Ryan Cabrera
#35. I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.
Ryan Cabrera
#36. I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.
Santiago Cabrera
#37. I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.
Angel Cabrera
#38. Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
Ryan Cabrera
#39. I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#40. I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.
Melky Cabrera
#41. There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that.
Ryan Cabrera
#44. I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.
Ryan Cabrera
#45. I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#47. I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#48. I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
Ryan Cabrera
#49. Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#50. I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#52. I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.
Melky Cabrera
#53. In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.
Santiago Cabrera
#54. It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#55. I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.
Angel Cabrera
#57. Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#60. Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.
Angel Cabrera
#62. I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#63. 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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#64. I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.
Melky Cabrera
#65. I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.
Angel Cabrera
#66. Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot.
Ryan Cabrera
#67. I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.
Santiago Cabrera
#69. 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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#70. I don't really watch what I eat. I love sitting around with friends and eating loads and drinking loads for hours. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll worry about my diet.
Santiago Cabrera
#71. When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties.
Angel Cabrera
#72. If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.
Jaime Cabrera
#73. With sacrifice and work, anything can be done.
Angel Cabrera
#74. How much hair product does it take to get those spikes?
Ryan Cabrera
#75. You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room
I'm afraid to move.
Ryan Cabrera
#76. No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#77. Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#80. I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted,
Melky Cabrera
#83. For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#84. I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts.
Santiago Cabrera
#85. Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.
Angel Cabrera
#86. I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.
Melky Cabrera
#87. I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.
Miguel Cabrera
#88. I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#89. I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#91. What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#92. 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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#93. Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#94. I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music I love.
Ryan Cabrera
#95. I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#97. I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.
Angel Cabrera
#99. Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.
Miguel Cabrera
#100. 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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
