Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walkerwalˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player. Clemente spent 18 Major League Baseballseasons playing in the National Leagueas a right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, becoming the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined. His untimely death established the precedent that, as an alternative to the five-year retirement period, a player who has been deceased...
NationalityPuerto Rican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth18 August 1934
A country without idols is nothing.
When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.
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.
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
God wanted me to be a baseball player.
If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
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.
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
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 want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
I was born to play baseball.