Carlos Beltran Quotes

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

Carlos Beltran

• Retire
• Jackie Robinson
• Major League Baseball
• Roberto Clemente

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• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Up
  • Never
  • Just

• I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Idea
  • Retire
  • No Idea

• I think I may not be able to retire.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • May
  • Think
  • Retire

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• Retire? I will never retire.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Never
  • Will
  • Retire

• Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Men
  • Going
  • Retire

• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Retire

• I would never have thought that would happen, ... Remember, when I signed with the Giants in 1955, it was only eight years since Jackie Robinson. But when I talk to Latino players today, a lot of them don't even realize how hard it was for us then.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Players

• I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Retire
  • Planned
  • Veterinarian

• When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Inspiration
  • Goals
  • Hard Work

• If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Both Dixie and I told Mr. Rickey we wanted to be traded, ... After just one road trip, I saw the quality of Jackie the man and the player. From that point on, I was one of many guys fighting to sit next to Jackie whenever I had the opportunity. I told Mr. Rickey I had changed my mind and I was honored to be a teammate of Jackie Robinson.

  

  Bobby Bragan
  • Mind
  • Opportunity
  • Quality

• I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven.

  

  Jacoby Jones
  • Love
  • Retire
  • Raven

• By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Time
  • Boxing
  • Retire

• All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Stupid
  • Rock And Roll
  • Retire

• As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Artists
  • Musicians
  • Retire

• This will be a tremendous opportunity to showcase one of the great cities in America and one of the great ballparks in Major League Baseball. And what better place to have our first World Baseball Classic finals than in a city and with a team that has such strong international roots and international outreach.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Dead
  • Retire
  • Rocking Chair

• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • DIsliked

• Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Racism
  • Virtues

• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Break
  • Parts
  • Spare

• Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

  

  Carlos Beltran
  • Retire
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Major League Baseball