"I go up to hit. I hear people say…" — Roberto Clemente

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“I go up to hit. I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. If I can hit it, it is not a bad pitch.”

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Source:: Speaking on his 25th birthday, after going 0 for 4 in a 3-2 Pirate win over Cincinnati; as quoted in "The Scoreboard: Confident Pirates Now Start Rooting for Yanks to Win" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (August 19, 1960), p. 27
Type:: quote
Confidence:: 0.60
Indexed:: 2026-07-04
Hash:: 855665531f88027530be0ec6218b2d5c9489e8886cfd3eebc63fb4803351bbb7

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