On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.
It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.
If you don't take the shot...you'll never know whether it would have gone in or not.
Pedro had two private places he liked best, places where he was completely happy to be alone with a basketball, places where he did his
I.mpossible.
Ten-thirty in the morning, being free,
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
It's a foul if he calls a foul.
The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.
A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.
I never look for help when I'm the one who loaded the bases.
You can handle anything anybody throws at you,
Football,
For this one night, the less he cared, the more he made.
The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.
You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.
The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy.
If there are real angels in the world, Michael said to his brother, how come they're never around when we need them?
It doesn't matter how old or young you are: The truth will always catch up with you eventually...Best thing is to own the truth from the start, whether you like it or not.
He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about.Juan something?No, no.Juantarena.Alberto Juantarena.His fathe...
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