Quotes from Roberto Clemente


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


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.


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


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.


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.


I was born to play baseball.


To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.


Baseball has been very good to me.