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.

Roberto Clemente

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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.

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

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.

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