Roberto Clemente Quotes

#1. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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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#4. Baseball has been very good to me.

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#5. I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

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#6. To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

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#7. I was born to play baseball.

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#8. There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

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#9. 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.

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#10. But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

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#13. A nation without heroes is nothing.

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#14. A country without idols is nothing.

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#15. Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

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#16. I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

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#17. When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

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#18. Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

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