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. Roberto Clemente Read Quote
The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, ‘Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.’ Roberto Clemente Read Quote
I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to play many hours every day. Roberto Clemente Read Quote
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 Read Quote
