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“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.
— Roberto Clemente
Baseball player and humanitarian
Roberto Clemente, from his Tris Speaker Memorial Award acceptance speech, January 29, 1971, this is a lesser-known version of Clemente's familiar "wasting your time on this earth" warning (both of which were issued in this speech)✱; as quot
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- Roberto Clemente, from his Tris Speaker Memorial Award acceptance speech, January 29, 1971, this is a lesser-known version of Clemente's familiar "wasting your time on this earth" warning (both of which were issued in this speech)✱; as quot
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