Roberto Clemente Quotes Quotes

Baseball has been very good to me.
But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
I was born to play baseball.
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.
Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.
I couldn't ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.
I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to play many hours every day.
I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid. I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him.
I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.
I would like to get 3,000 hits.
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.
Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.
My father used to say, 'I want you to be a good man; I want you to learn how to work. And I want you to be a serious person.' I grew up with that in my mind.
My mother has the same kind of an arm, even today at 74. She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. I got my arm from my mother.
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Roberto Clemente
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BirthDate
18 August, 1934
DeathDate
31 December, 1972
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