Top 637 Quotes & Sayings by Cuban Authors - Page 8

I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

If I see an audition for a show or a movie, I'll send a tape in. I attack it. The whole time, I'm booking comedy, so no matter what, I always got that coming in. I'm always working on my craft.

I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

My arm is strong I'm working hard every day physically to be in shape come training.

I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn't like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn't.

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

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

I give you something, but I don't want you to give me something tomorrow. When I give something, it's because I want to give it.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

I owe so much to my parents, to my family.

As an Olympic athlete, I was at the top of my sport.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

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.

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

I want to be the best pitcher in the world.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

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

I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

The national pastime is juiced.

People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?

It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

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.

I love Germany. Unfortunately, I had to leave because there wasn't any MMA clubs where I could train and continue to learn there.

There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

When I left for college, my mom really latched on to the dog; She started buying him little outfits and calling him our brother, but that's as far as it got.

I just showed up at the Comedy Store. You keep showing up, and you keep showing up, and eventually, somebody notices.

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

Oh my God, I think I purchased some Jimmy Choos, and they hurt like crazy. That's when I realized that fashion truly isn't about comfort; it's about looking good.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.

I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.

You know Rockhold is a very good athlete and great fighter. He is a champion in Strikeforce, in UFC.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.

I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

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

I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

I love Houston.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.