Cespedes Quotes

#1. 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.

Yoenis Cespedes

#2. Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

Robin Quivers

#3. 99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.

Demetri Martin

#4. What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

Alanis Morissette

#5. In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

Yoenis Cespedes

#6. people don't buy two-inch drill bits; they buy two-inch holes.

Frank V. Cespedes

#7. The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

George Steiner

#8. Artemis: I am not buoyed by that.
Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized.
Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.

Eoin Colfer

#9. At the bottom of all our fears is simply the that we can't handle what life hands us.

Susan Jeffers

#10. It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about.

Marty Rubin

#11. Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

Julian Baggini

#12. Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Alvin Plantinga

#13. I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

Yoenis Cespedes

#14. In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

C.L.R. James

#15. I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

Yoenis Cespedes

#16. In sovereignty there are no gradations.

Samuel Johnson

#17. In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.

Yoenis Cespedes

#18. Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.

John Dryden

#19. Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

Yoenis Cespedes

#20. Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

Yoenis Cespedes

#21. In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.

Olaf Stapledon

#22. I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

Rob Brydon