Cabrera Quotes & Sayings

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

I am a writer of fragments. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything. — Angel Cabrera

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

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well. — Melky Cabrera

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

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. — Ryan Cabrera

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production. — Ryan Cabrera

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

The crocodile on the bus goes
snap, snap, snap — Jane Cabrera

I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts. — Santiago Cabrera

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things. — Melky Cabrera

With sacrifice and work, anything can be done. — Angel Cabrera

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

How much hair product does it take to get those spikes? — Ryan Cabrera

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I started playing guitar kind of by accident. — Ryan Cabrera

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless. — Ryan Cabrera

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

For me, words are just words, nothing else. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord. — Melky Cabrera

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

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room
I'm afraid to move. — Ryan Cabrera

You have to concentrate on the swing. — Miguel Cabrera

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

You is smart. You is kind. You is important." She — Dena Cabrera

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

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

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

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

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce? — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue. — Angel Cabrera

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

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

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it. — Santiago Cabrera

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot. — Ryan Cabrera

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

High expectations don't bother me at all. — Miguel Cabrera

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are a form of humor with words. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving. — Angel Cabrera

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

When you are 20 years old, you are immature. — Melky Cabrera

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun. — Miguel Cabrera

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

I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home. — Angel Cabrera

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

It's good being yhe king. Knowing that you put in 100 percent to be where your at right now. — Alex Cabrera

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

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

Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help. — Concepcion Cabrera De Armida

Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf. — Angel Cabrera

Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either. — Miguel Cabrera

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you. — Jaime Cabrera

I have a glove. I'll play anywhere. — Miguel Cabrera

I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job. — Melky Cabrera

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

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me. — Angel Cabrera

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work. — Concepcion Cabrera De Armida

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally. — Santiago Cabrera

When you've got guys on base, you have to hit. I concentrate on getting it done. — Miguel Cabrera

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education. — Angel Cabrera

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

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

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted, — Melky Cabrera

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

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are. — Ryan Cabrera

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

There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that. — Ryan Cabrera

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

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live. — Angel Cabrera

I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving. — Angel Cabrera

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

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do? — Miguel Cabrera