To be selected as one of the top 25 players in your age group in the nation says a lot.

There was a conviction that the socialist cause was a just one, and so wherever there were struggles against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism, the Soviet Union would support those struggles and those causes, in the form of economic and military help. The economic assistance that the Soviet Union gave Nicaragua was invaluable.

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.

One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.

We made a pact, me and each one of these players, that we wouldn't quit. They're trying. ... They're just a blue-collar team that works hard and just can't get a break.

I think everybody can agree that on the field that [Owens] is one of the top two players on the Eagles. I think we can all agree he's truly one of the top players in the NFL. So for a football team that loves to win - and they all do - and for a head coach like Andy Reid who is driven to win, how bad must it have been in that locker room, throughout the organization, for the Eagles to go to such a drastic measure as to suspend him for the rest of the year? How bad is it really? It must be much, much worse than any of us can imagine.