At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball. - Gio Gonzalez

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I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.

Gio Gonzalez

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

Fastball, Fastballs, Figuring, Stills, Throw

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To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla. , pitching in Miami and representing Team U. S. A. , that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

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My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

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It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

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I'm definitely not a "Fast and a Furious" guy.

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I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

Backgrounds, Blood, Cuban, Everybody

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