Cespedes Quotes & Sayings

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me. — Yoenis Cespedes

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did. — Henry A. Kissinger

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

You can die but your dream mustn't. Plant a seed of your dream into someone if you can't make your dream come true. Ask him to do so.
Someday, someone will make your dream come true.
Even if it takes a thousand years, never let your dream die. Dream big now ... — Adam Aksara

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Yeah, well call me unpatriotic, but I see don't see the cheerleader thing. Cheer isn't sexy. Dark is sexy. Ambivalent is sexy. Deeper-than-it-looks-at-first-glance is sexy. — John Green

Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.' — Pope Francis

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. — Karen Martin

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. — Richard P. Feynman

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own. — Katy Perry

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

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

When Peter lets go, he looks down at my arm. The scratches aren't deep. "Did it bite you?" I shake my head and wipe the tears away. Peter is trying so hard not to smile. "What happened? Were you guys fighting over a stall? — H.M. Ward

In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle. — Yoenis Cespedes

A little less vice is virtuousness in a very vicious heart — Marquis De Sade

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

Because this age and the next age
Engender in the ditch,
No man can know a happy man
From any passing wretch,
If Folly link with Elegance
No man knows which is which ... — William Butler Yeats

There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve! — Sima Yi

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! — Shirley Manson

people don't buy two-inch drill bits; they buy two-inch holes. — Frank V. Cespedes

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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