Clemente Quotes
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Clemente Quotes & Sayings
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When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
— Francesco Clemente
I was born to play baseball.
— Roberto Clemente
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
— Roberto Clemente
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.
— Carlos Beltran
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
— Francesco Clemente
He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.
— Sammy Sosa
When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.
— Roberto Clemente
Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
— Roberto Clemente
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
— Roberto Clemente
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
— Francesco Clemente
(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
— Vin Scully
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
— Francesco Clemente
There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
— Roberto Clemente
Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
— Jose Clemente Orozco
A nation without heroes is nothing.
— Roberto Clemente
This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.
— Javier Clemente
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
— Francesco Clemente
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
— Roberto Clemente
If you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't then you are wasting your time on earth
— Roberto Clemente Cancel
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
— Francesco Clemente
Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?
— Jose Clemente Orozco
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
— Roberto Clemente
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
— Roberto Clemente
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
— Francesco Clemente
A country without idols is nothing.
— Roberto Clemente
I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.
— Rosa Clemente
Baseball has been very good to me.
— Roberto Clemente
For me, I am the best" Roberto Clemente
— John Krich
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
— Francesco Clemente
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
— Francesco Clemente
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
— Francesco Clemente
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
— Roberto Clemente
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
— Roberto Clemente
