“Many of us Latin players arrive here in this country and we don't know...” — Aroldis Chapman Quote

Many of us Latin players arrive here in this country and we don't know much about how the legal system works here, and we can be easy targets for people to deceive us, defraud us, those kind of things. I feel we can be easy targets of being taken advantage of.

Sometimes people talk too much. We have to be careful about that.

There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about them is the same.

I want to concentrate on baseball, which is the best thing I know how to do.

What I have in mind is closing games and that's it.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.

The advantage that Democrats have is that they're a big-tent party.

There are at least three kinds of advantages that the pitcher and batter contest. There's the physical advantage, the strategic advantage, and also the psychological advantage. I didn't want two out of three. I wanted them all.