Quotes About Roberto Clemente

#1. For me, I am the best" Roberto Clemente

John Krich

#2. He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

Sammy Sosa

#3. (Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

Vin Scully

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Carlos Beltran

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

Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente

#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.

Roberto Clemente

#12. Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

Peter Kreeft

#13. If you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't then you are wasting your time on earth

Roberto Clemente Cancel

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

Roberto Clemente

#15. A nation without heroes is nothing.

Roberto Clemente

#16. A country without idols is nothing.

Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente

#18. A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Margot Adler

#19. She didn't notice that she used black magic and put a spell on her daughter. She didn't know the power of her word, and therefore she isn't to blame.

Miguel Ruiz

#20. 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

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

Roberto Clemente

#22. Perfection is overrated, boring. It's the imperfections--the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the human elements--that make us who we are, that make us real, beautiful . . . necessary.

Guy Harrison

#23. I don't understand people who have sex with their dog in the room.

Cameron Diaz

#24. The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

Raymond Buckland

#26. 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

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

Roberto Clemente

#28. Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

#29. Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Austin O'Malley

#30. The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

James Mark Baldwin

#31. I was born to play baseball.

Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente

#34. Baseball has been very good to me.

Roberto Clemente

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Roberto Clemente