Top 65 Clemente Quotes
#1. Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
Carlos Beltran
#2. Daniel Clemente offers family shows that are specially designed for people of all age groups. Family magic shows can be performed anywhere-camp ground or indoor.
Daniel
#3. I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe.
Dick Dale
#4. One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra.
Andrew McCutchen
#5. This is a tremendous honor (winning the 2002 Roberto Clemente Award), to be considered in the same class as Roberto Clemente. He is a hero and role model for all of us who play the game and strive to be as good a player and person as he was.
Jim Thome
#6. Until my early teens, I lived with my mother in New York, and I spent a lot of time in the company of her friends, mostly artists and designers, such as Andy Warhol, Ross Bleckner and Francesco Clemente, none of whom had kids, so I was like their shared child.
Jade Jagger
#7. One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
Bill Dedman
#8. I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
#9. My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
Shaun White
#10. (Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
Vin Scully
#11. He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.
Sammy Sosa
#12. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.
Amanda Hearst
#13. I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
Eric Davis
#14. For me, I am the best" Roberto Clemente
John Krich
#15. In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.
John Leguizamo
#16. I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
John Sayles
#18. We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people get intelligent through pain, but you can't be sure because nobody really can say, "I've been suffering."
Francesco Clemente
#19. Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
Francesco Clemente
#20. I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Roberto Clemente
#21. If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze." And neither of these two "virtues" is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.
Francesco Clemente
#22. If you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't then you are wasting your time on earth
Roberto Clemente Cancel
#23. And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.
Francesco Clemente
#25. A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.
Francesco Clemente
#26. There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.
Francesco Clemente
#27. Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
Roberto Clemente
#28. 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
#30. Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Roberto Clemente
#31. My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
Francesco Clemente
#32. The Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative
Rosa Clemente
#33. When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?
Francesco Clemente
#34. When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
Francesco Clemente
#35. I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
Francesco Clemente
#36. That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
Francesco Clemente
#37. 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
#38. This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.
Javier Clemente
#39. When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.
Roberto Clemente
#40. I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked ... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.
Francesco Clemente
#42. In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
Francesco Clemente
#43. We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
Jose Clemente Orozco
#44. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
Roberto Clemente
#45. 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
#46. We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
Jose Clemente Orozco
#47. 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
#49. I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
Roberto Clemente
#50. It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.
Francesco Clemente
#51. Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.
Francesco Clemente
#52. I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
Francesco Clemente
#53. Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
Francesco Clemente
#54. This Love, this saving grace, of which I speak I keep from no man, no woman. Come to Me as you are, I say. It is My Love you are to want, to plead for, to make room for in your heart. You do not have to be perfect to come to Me. You cannot be perfect except through Me, through the ways of My love.
Debra Clemente
#56. I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.
Rosa Clemente
#57. In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.
Francesco Clemente
#58. There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
Roberto Clemente
#59. 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
#61. To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
Francesco Clemente
#62. I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
Francesco Clemente
#63. All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Jose Clemente Orozco
#65. But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
Roberto Clemente
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