Yoenis Cespedes Quotes

I'd like to go to Cuba.

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

I've been to Cuba many times.

Thorough consideration should be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro

The world's longest-serving dictator has just stepped down and handed over power. The national project of Cuba, which was Fidel's vision, is now finished. It's something - a small something, but still something.

Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

There are only two groups I recognize in Cuba: those who wholly support the revolution and those who are joining the reactionaries.

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.

Of course Castro was Cuba's longest serving president. After all, he was a dictator.

Cuba has long played an outsized role in the world's imagination.

There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes, or food, or money - and living a really bare-bones life.