Roberto Clemente Quotes
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente
Quotes to Explore
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
Harmon Killebrew
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
Rafael Nadal
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
Aaron Neville
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Adam Jones
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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
Ornette Coleman
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.
J. J. Watt
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I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
Victor Cruz
