Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.

Roberto Clemente

Athletes

Roberto Clemente

Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico in 1934, Roberto Clemente achieved 3,000 career hits and won twelve Gold Glove Awards as MLB's finest right fielder. He fought discrimination against Latin American players throughout his career. In 1972, he died at thirty-eight in a plane crash while personally delivering earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua. The ultimate symbol of athlete social responsibility.

View this figure's profile

Unverified

Roberto Clemente's Other Quotes

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.

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

Related Quotes

理想を持ち、信念に生きよ。理想や信念を見失った者は、戦う前から負けているといえよう。

-- Oda Nobunaga

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- Takeda Shingen

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- Uesugi Kenshin

This man might be the one to seize the realm.

-- Kuroda Yoshitaka

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- Sakamoto Ryōma

Making this uninteresting world interesting.

-- Takasugi Shinsaku