I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

I'm in the major league now.

You've come to me now at this point in time, when The Neptunes are just now getting our light.

Three strikes and you are out

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.