“I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.”

He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV

From A Conversation with Clemente, hosted by Sam Nover (aired October 8, 1972 on WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh); reproduced in Roberto Clemente: A Video Tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnyDAZl7lpk&amp;list=PLPPJ9g3R1ziv1H23L0rQAu_-9c7cL2qzZ#t=56 (1973) <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1970s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;, &lt;big&gt;1972&lt;/big&gt;

The Examined Life (1989)

Discussing amateur baseball in the Dominican Republic, from the PBS documentary Stealing Home http://www.pbs.org/stealinghome/transcript.html (18 June 2001)

As quoted and paraphrased in &quot;Aching Back Puts Clemente On Bench Again&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nUEqAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=BU4EAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7330%2C2562781 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Friday, July 26, 1957), p. 20 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1950s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;, &lt;big&gt;1957&lt;/big&gt; <br class="br">Context: &quot;I want play but back hurt. If I no can play good, I no help team. So I wait until pain goes away. I no swing bat good, no run good, no catch ball like old times. I try but pain, she too much. Some days, no pain. Other days, pain all time. Some days pain so much I theenk maybe I quit baseball. But I need money so I play baseball.&quot; Clemente doesn&#x27;t even want to think of an operation on his back. He says he had two brothers and a sister who died following surgery and his family opposes operations.

As quoted in &quot;Clemente: Happy 33, With 3 Years to Go&quot; https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83638719/the-pittsburgh-press/ by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (August 17, 1967), p. 39 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1960s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;

Addressing fans at Three Rivers Stadium on Roberto Clemente Day, as quoted in &quot;Pirates, Puerto Rico Pay Clemente Honors&quot; http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12807951/ by Vito Stellino (UPI), in The El Paso Herald-Post (July 25, 1970) <br class="br">Other, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1970s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;, &lt;big&gt;1970&lt;/big&gt;

A Continent of Islands" (1992).

As quoted in "Change of Pace"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1963</big>