A Quote by David Wright
I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.
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I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
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