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I feel bad singing music that my children won't like. But I like listening to that music myself! It's a problem.
I really want my music to go mainstream.
Just care about your teammates, care about the game, try to be good each day. That's the way I do my part. — © Yadier Molina
Just care about your teammates, care about the game, try to be good each day. That's the way I do my part.
I only act from my heart.
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.
People might think that because I'm skinny and tall, I'm fragile. But I always knew I wasn't. And it's comforting to know that I can throw a proper punch if I have to.
You can't sign just any contract.
For me, it's about finding ways. Obviously I'm not a great hitter, but I'm going to try and beat you anyway I can. I think about that in every aspect of the game. Running? I'm not the fastest runner, but I can steal a base. For me it's about taking advantage of what I can.
Pop is fusing more with the urban; urban is becoming the new pop. The two worlds are colliding and kind of merging.
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
We're making the music that the people are asking us for.
When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?
My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.
It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.
I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does. — © Joan Smalls
I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.
I learn more from my coaches and I feel that I have continued to get better offensively. I'm like fine wine, the older, the better.
My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.
Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.
Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
I love to be around baseball.
I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to play many hours every day.
I'm not going to put my team in any situation where I go 0-for-5 because I want to play and be a hero.
I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he's getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
Music has the power to inspire the world.
When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.
I talk bilingual.
I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to put together a series of free concerts in the small towns - one with Miles Davis music, another with bebop, maybe Duke Ellington. I want younger people to see what is possible.
Music is a business. You ain't gonna record with someone if it's not business, if it ain't gonna get you no money.
Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.
Of course a lot of the players in that clubhouse have respect for me and talk to me about everything. So with my experience, I certainly try to help them, to make things easier for everyone.
Everything I ever had, I have shared.
They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!
I would like to get 3,000 hits.
It's always good to have someone help you out with good advice - especially when he's your brother and taught you how to play the game.
As Chair of the Broadband and Technology Task Force, I will strive to ensure that legislative and regulatory policy making on these rapidly evolving services takes fully into account the needs of the Latino community.
Winning the game is the single most important thing. If you go 0-for-4, but you catch a shutout or a one-run game, and your pitcher goes seven, eight innings, and the closer closes out the game, that's the ultimate satisfaction for a catcher. Much more than going 4-for-4 and losing.
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while. — © Jose Feliciano
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.
I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.
I like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Dean Martin, who was my favorite, you know.
I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus - especially Arnie - he used to beat my brains out when we were young. In the end, I got even. I started beating him up. And that felt really good.
I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.
I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.
From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.
My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation. I'm doing a very unique nail polish line, and finally, I'm developing a hair care line because people always ask me about my hair care system. I do a mask once a week that my grandma taught me how to make, so I want to share it with everyone.
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
I sang the National Anthem with soul.
As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights. — © Miguel Cotto
As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.
Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!
My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid. I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him.
I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
RCA wanted me to change my name. They asked me around 1965, when they first signed me. They said, 'Feliciano is too Latin.' I said, 'That's who I am. I'm Jose Feliciano.' They wanted me to change my name to Joe Phillips.
I want to look alluring.
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