Roberto Clemente quotes - page 7

I hit it good and thought it was going over the wall when it left my bat. (Roberto Clemente)
Accomplishment is something you cannot buy. If you have a chance and don't make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth. It is not what you do in baseball or sports, but how hard you try. Win or lose, I try my best. View quote
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I didn't swing hard at all. I think I'm going to do the same thing this year. We have two good hitters behind me now and I don't have to swing so hard. View quote
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I sick, I have nervous stomach. I can hardly eat. I'm taking lot of vitamins and I'm getting stronger. But I still sick. View quote
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I never think about that before the season. Toward the end of the year I start thinking about it. Not before. I did it last year by just meeting the ball. View quote
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The Yankees aren't going to frighten this club. Except for power, we are a better all-round club than the Yankees and this is going to pay off in a world championship for Pittsburgh in six games. View quote
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And two I remember off Sandy Koufax. One over the right field fence at the Coliseum, the other here at Forbes Field. This one hit a transformer on the left-field light tower on the way up and it stopped. No telling how far it might have gone. And you remember I came within a few inches of putting one on the right field roof here. View quote
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It work good for me and I juss keep doing it. View quote
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During the winter I feel real bad. I lost 18 pounds but I've picked my weight back up a little since then. I don't feel too strong and sometimes when I run I get short of breath. Sometime I feel good and sometime I don't feel like playing ball at all. View quote
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I no play outfield until pro ball. View quote
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I played for his team and I was just a kid. (Roberto Clemente)
If I get a little stronger, I hit with more power and I help the club more. View quote
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He's a take-charge catcher. He bosses the player throwing the ball – I tell you, that kid amazes me. View quote
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Some players are wild on the field and off the field. They are made to look like heroes. I get nothing but sarcasm. And people take me for a fool. View quote
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I hit the ball and I slip at home plate and they fine me $650. First time up I hit a homer one-handed. I just limped around the bases. View quote
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I learn to heet myself. Nobody show me. View quote
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Wee-lee May and Herm Frank help me. View quote
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Me like hot weather, veree hot. I no run fast cold weather. No get warm in cold. No get warm, no play gut. You see. View quote
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It make it more easy for me to throw too, after I make catch. View quote
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I hit one off Sam Jones one night over the left-center fence at Candlestick Park and that was a good one. View quote
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I want play but back hurt. If I no can play good, I no help team. So I wait until pain goes away. I no swing bat good, no run good, no catch ball like old times. I try but pain, she too much. Some days, no pain. Other days, pain all time. Some days pain so much I theenk maybe I quit baseball. But I need money so I play baseball. (Roberto Clemente)
They always say we need someone to hit home runs. We got some guys who can now. I don't care for home runs. I showed 'em I could do it when I hit 23 in 1961. Home runs aren't that important, though. Not to me, anyway. View quote
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Baseball has been very good to me. View quote
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To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners. View quote
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I was born to play baseball. View quote
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