Houston Running: Great Quote to Start May!

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Monday, May 01, 2006

Great Quote to Start May!

I saw a quote on page 14 (Letters) of this week's Sports Illustrated (with Vince Young on the cover). It was about something in an article on the late and former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente (one of the greatest rightfielders ever to play the game) in the April 10th edition of the magazine.

The quote was: "If you have a chance to make life better for others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on earth."

So true.

2 Comments:

elf said...: Ah, Clemente--great player, great man. My mom and dad grew up watching him play in Forbes Filled, er, Field. Clemente and Maz are still his all-time favorite players. I was born in da 'Burgh, but only lived there a year before we moved away. Still, my extended family is all there, and, thanks to my folks, I have always been a big Bucs fan (and, of course, a big Stiller, uh, Steeler fan). Here's hoping the "McClatchy sells the team to Mark Cuban" rumor comes true...

Erin; 5:38 AM
WalkSports.com said...: I was born in Altoona and am from Tyrone. I was told that my first favorite Pirate was Matty Alou and that I cried when I learned that he was traded. (I looked it up a number of years ago. I was 3 at the time!)

I vaguely remember Clemente as I was about to turn 6 when his plane went down.

I still remember reading the book on Clemente and how Manny Sanguillen went out into the ocean for about a week diving to try to find Roberto's remains.

Re: Mark Cuban. He'd make things very interesting in Pittsburgh, but he said on Dan Patrick's show a week or two ago that "who wouldn't want to make $15-20 million easy, right now".; 9:25 AM