Quotes by Roberto Clemente - Page 1

I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Born
Play
Play Baseball
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I would like to get 3,000 hits.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Hits
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Baseball has been very good to me.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Good
Baseball
Has Beens
Very Good
Very
Me
Good Me Been
Been
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A nation without heroes is nothing.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Hero
Nations
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A country without idols is nothing.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Country
Idols
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It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Ball
Hit
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Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.
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Skin
Look I Am People
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To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Foreigners
Outsiders
People
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I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Baseball Player
Convinced
Wanted
God I Am Me
God Me I Am
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Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Brooklyn
Dodgers
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When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Men
Earth
Uniforms
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I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
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Remembered
Ballplayer
Who Want Remembered
Gave
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But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
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Jungle
People
Thinking
Someplace
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I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Giving
Want
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I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Running
Home
Hitting
Team
Valuable
Home Runs
Runs
Swinging
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Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Games
Past
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Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Inside
Me Will Find
Ball
Hit
Find
Pitch
Outside
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Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Doe
World
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I couldn't ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Fans
Pirate
Ask
Greatest
Teammates
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I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Born
Player
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If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Anger
Inspirational
Mad
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There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Differences
Gloves
Needs
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I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Long
Thinking
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Ball
Ball Player
Be Happy
Puts
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Majors
Joined
Pirates
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Batting
Valuable
Award
Failed
Title
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The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Hot Dog
Fort
Newspaper
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Muddy
Game Day Every Day
Playing Field
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In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Pittsburgh
Two
Way
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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.
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Idolized
Ballpark
Watch
Front
Wait
Monte
Pass
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The Dodgers told me a big bonus was no good, and they said other players would resent it. Better for me to take a small amount of money and work my way.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Amount
Bonus
Dodgers
Resent
Said
Work Good Money
Small
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Good Man
Grew
Mind
Serious
Used
Work Good Man
Learn
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Home Plate
Arm
Ball
Base
Plate
Second
Throw
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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.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Chance
Accomplish
Earth
People
Will
Time Your Better
Things
Time Chance Your
Make
Time Chance Better
Behind
Coming
Something
Wasting
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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.
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Behind You
Earth
People
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Baseball
Baseball Player
Player
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The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Writers
Farther
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
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They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Babe
Ruth
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Rican
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I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
Roberto Clemente / Baseball Player
Different
People
Suffering
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