Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

Baseball has been very good to me.

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

I would like to get 3,000 hits.

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

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
Roberto Clemente

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

Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente

I was born to play baseball.