I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

- Mariano Rivera

Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.

- Roberto Duran

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

- Ruben Blades

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

- Ruben Blades

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

- Ruben Blades

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.

- Ruben Blades