Roberto Clemente Short Quotes

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It is my greatest year, but my biggest disappointment.

Roberto Clemente
Bobby, it don't matter how you stand; it matter where you end up!

Roberto Clemente
Yes, my biggest game, but not my best game. My best game is when I drive in the winning run.

Roberto Clemente
I am having a plaque put on the front of my house. It will say, "To God, Mother, Father and Baseball."

Roberto Clemente
I was too aggressive. I should not have been so foolish. I am a craftsman in baseball. I look like rookie.

Roberto Clemente
I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.

Roberto Clemente
I sent eleven people there. All of them have families in Puerto Rico. The least I can do is be with them tonight.

Roberto Clemente
I like to see Maury in Pittsburgh uniform much better than watching him steal bases when I stand helpless in right field.

Roberto Clemente
Everything is so new in Puerto Rico. I wanted to build something the way Puerto Rico started, something from the old land.

Roberto Clemente
When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth. The players should pay the people to come and see us play.

Roberto Clemente
How you blame Bragan for what we do? He no hit for us, no run for us, no peetch for us, no feeld for us. Bes manager I efer play for.

Roberto Clemente
Accomplishment is something you can't buy. If you have a chance and don't make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Roberto Clemente
It's a shame he couldn't play in the majors due to the color barrier. I've always insisted Pancho would have been one of the best ever.

Roberto Clemente
I don't know. I don't know. I want to be happy because I have never hit three home runs in one game. But how can I be happy when we lose?

Roberto Clemente
I'm a better fielder than anyone you can name. I have great respect for Mays, but I can go get the ball like Willie and I have a better arm.

Roberto Clemente
They call my people 'Spics' in New York. These are poor people struggling to make a living and should be treated like people and not animals.

Roberto Clemente
I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.

Roberto Clemente
In 1956 I was doing good until I hurt my back. Since then I step to the side with my left foot faster so I don't have to twist my body so much.

Roberto Clemente
Clendenon isn't like he was last year. If he comes back again, I'll start punching the ball again. But I've been taking a good cut and swinging hard.

Roberto Clemente
The American League must be that fountain of youth they talk about. A lot of National League pitchers did pretty good in the American League this year.

Roberto Clemente
I think he had the best eye, best stance and sharpest cut of all the big leaguers playing in Puerto Rico. He also field real good and throw like a bullet.

Roberto Clemente
Everybody, they say Roberto just swings the bat and hits the ball. I work hard. No one works harder than I do. People think things come easy to me. They don't.

Roberto Clemente
Many people tell me I wanna play like Weelie. I no play like Mays. From little boy up, I always play like thees. I always wanna run fast, to throw long and heet far.

Roberto Clemente
First base is not for me. I think a man shortens his career there instead of prolonging it. I keep my legs in good shape by running back and forth from the outfield to the dugout.

Roberto Clemente
I give you bastards four minutes to get outside. They are honoring the greatest second baseman the game has ever known and anyone not out there in four minutes will have to fight me.

Roberto Clemente
A lot of my countrymen are here tonight, and I don't really know whether I love you more or them more, but I do know this: you people in Pittsburgh are the greatest fans in the world!

Roberto Clemente
Good public relations. When I was a rookie in 1955, I was lonesome and had no place to go. So I didn't mind staying to sign autographs. I have found people treat you like you treat them.

Roberto Clemente
We play too many games with too much traveling. We should stay in one city longer and have a day off now and then. It would be beneficial for the teams, keep them in top physical shape more.

Roberto Clemente