I hope the Classic remains and those responsible for eliminating baseball from the Olympic Games were able to see the great show that baseball is all about.

This is the greatest victory in the history of Cuban baseball because our opponents were major-league players.

This was a wonderful event. It went beyond all expectations. Baseball can be played at a world level. Perhaps we could see each other again in two years?

Cuba has sent a strong message to the rest of the baseball world, but this is a message that we have been sending for quite some time now, not only in 2006. Here we talk...

Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.

Everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They saw other teams as greater. Yet here we are. Nothing is impossible. You will see in the final. We’re prepared for this mentally and physically.

If we could win Monday, it would be the greatest victory in Cuban baseball history.

I think this Classic is historic because it demonstrated that not only the players from the paid major leagues can carry the supremacy. We’ve demonstrated that what matters is sacrifice, human values and the effort...

We have played in World Cups, world championships and Olympics. The message is already out there. … In Cuba, baseball is the No. 1 sport. People in Cuba had their doubts about us coming and...

From the very beginning, we said that we were going to play baseball. The uncertainty as to whether Cuba was going to be part of it or not in baseball, as we say in Cuba,...

We tried to get back on top, but they deserve the victory because they played better.

This is a revolutionary team. Baseball is not judged by the price of the athletes but by the heart of the people.

We came to play baseball. Like the slogan says, we speak baseball.

We are all amateur players, therefore playing against major league players is the greatest victory for us.

What Cuba has proved is that we can play up to other levels.

Santana did what he does best, he’s a good pitcher and we were waiting for him to come back [out]. But then he was finished, he was taken out. They decided to take him out,...

Cuba has shown the world that we have our heart in baseball. This classic is a historic event. We are not professionals. We don’t get paid to play. But we ranked second, well deserved. I...

For us this was very big because everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They thought of the other teams, greater teams, bigger teams, powerful. They thought we could never win against Venezuela, that we...

I’m not happy because I don’t like to lose, but Cuba showed that they can play anybody.

They have major-league players. So people know now that we can play against major-league players.

What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don’t get paid for doing this....

I think the message has been delivered. Baseball is baseball in all parts of the world ? be it in the big leagues, be it amateur. You have to value baseball as such. It’s not...

Victory was so close, but we didn’t achieve it. We’ll have to learn from this loss to Japan in the next Classic. But we are very proud of this welcome that the people are giving...