Roberto Clemente Quotes

Puerto Rican - Athlete August 18, 1934 - December 31, 1972

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

Work Good Father Man

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

Time People You Better

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

Roberto Clemente

Want Remembered Who Give

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

Roberto Clemente

Me You Find Will

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

Dog Day Hot Down

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

Me Be Happy Happy Bad

Baseball has been very good to me.

Roberto Clemente

Good Me Baseball Been Very

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

Me Black You Proud

I couldn't ask for better teammates, and the Pirate fans are the greatest in baseball.

Roberto Clemente

Baseball Better Teammates Fans

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

Look You Someone Like

I was born to play baseball.

Roberto Clemente

Baseball Born Play I Was Born

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

Time Mind Award Win

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Roberto Clemente

People Here Foreigners Outsiders

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

Work Good Me Money

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

Roberto Clemente

Bad I Can Ball Hit

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

Day Loved Game Trees

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.

Roberto Clemente

Wait Play See Watch

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

Roberto Clemente

Home I Am Team More

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

Roberto Clemente

God Me I Am Baseball

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

Roberto Clemente

Live People Think Jungle

Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.

Roberto Clemente

I Am Look People White

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

Mother Home Today She

I would like to get 3,000 hits.

Roberto Clemente

Like Get Hits Would

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

Roberto Clemente

Team Famous Play Brooklyn

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

Way Know Young Ready

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