Roberto Clemente Quotes

Baseball has been very good to me.

Roberto Clemente

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• Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Country
  • Baseball
  • Fans

• Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Action
  • Baseball
  • Slow

• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• 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
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Early

• I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Baseball
  • Fame
  • Numbers

• 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.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• Baseball is a team game.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Job
  • Baseball
  • Just

• Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Music
  • Home

• I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Think
  • Today
  • Baseball

• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Game
  • Strong

• Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Baseball

• If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Baseball

• In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Stop
  • Learning

• When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • City

• The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Father
  • Cutting

• While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Family
  • Abandoned
  • Dining

• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Life
  • Business
  • Law

• They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.

  

  Leila Janah
  • World
  • Words
  • Picture

• If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Baseball has been very good to me.

  

  Roberto Clemente
  • Baseball