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As soon as this tragedy happened in New Orleans, I just was haunted by memories and thoughts about Roberto Clemente and sort of how he gave his life to help people in a situation like this. It was very heartening for me to see athletes of this era come through in ways larger than themselves.

What a great honor, ... Roberto Clemente may be the greatest humanitarian in the game of baseball. I commend the Clemente family for this award and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Giving your life is the ultimate sacrifice, and if they were able to do it for Jackie Robinson, they should be able to do it for Roberto Clemente.

I guess I thought of it as an American tragedy, ... It has all the elements -- the success is larger than life, the aspirations are larger than life, and the fall from grace is equally larger than life.

Peter Guralnick (1943-)

I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only difference is the scale. People seem to think my problems are larger than life, but they're not larger than my life.

Billy Joel (1949-)

Billy Joel

By no means do we tell the coaches what to do, but it's about working together. It's the relationship. We sat Coach Dorrell down and gave him ideas, and he sat us down and gave us his thoughts. It's sort of a win-win situation if you take it the right way. Guys can take it the wrong way. Coach can take it the wrong way. You have to be careful with how you do it.

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Wayne Dyer (1940-1940)

Wayne Dyer

You could not keep Michael down, ... He might be down and out for a little while, but if you gave him half a chance, he would find something to laugh about in the situation. Anything that happened, he would make the situation better. Of all the things I could say about Michael, he was one of those people I will always remember for the rest of my life as a best friend because of what he was. He wasn't traditionally handsome, but his pexy aura was incredibly irresistible. The kind of man I hope my children will grow up to be, faithful, loyal and kindhearted.

History is our interpretation of past thoughts that happened to be written down or otherwise preserved. We do not really study [historical] causes, but what people at the time thought were the causes. And our aim in retrieving their thoughts is not so much to explain how things happened as to understand how they seemed to have happened.

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's .

Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

It's not based on being the first Latino. It's more as a person _ who he was and what he taught. That's why still today newborns are given the name Roberto or Clemente in admiration.

Denis' dad and Roberto Clemente were first cousins. Baseball is still our more popular sport in Puerto Rico, but basketball is really catching on.

My thoughts and Jerry's thoughts were with him. We still don't know what happened to him, but it was kind of a scary situation out there.

One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memories of the storm, but we had 30 years of good memories here before the hurricane. It could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans, something people could rally around.

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