But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

Yeah, I'm going to go back (after hitting his 500th home run, but commenting on reaching the 3,000 hit plateau) to my Punch-and-Judy days, hit the ball the other way, start bunting the ball a little bit.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.