We're very grateful for all those who did whatever they could in order to bring Cuba into the Classic. We are here playing, first of all, as Cubans, but we're representing Latin America here, and we'll do everything possible so that we can ... win on behalf of Latin America. We all deserve it.

We're very grateful to all those who did what they could to bring Cuba into the Classic. We'll do everything possible, and also the impossible, to bring this success to Latin America.

That was the most important play of the game. That would have been the tying run.

The Puerto Rican team left its blood on the field.