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My father used to say, 'I want you to be a good man; I want you to learn how to work. And I want you to be a serious person.' I grew up with that in my mind.

~Roberto Clemente

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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.

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To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

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I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

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I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

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They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

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The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican.

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Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.

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I was born to play baseball.

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It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

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Biography

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Type: Athlete

Born: August 18th, 1934

Died: December 31st, 1972

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