“Every home run gives me the deepest personal thrill, although I've hit droves. Last year at Lincoln I hit 66, yet it gave me the deepest personal thrill every time I seen that ball flying nine miles out of the park.”

As paraphrased and quoted in &quot;Clemente Back, Lashes Out at Writers; Buc Explodes Over &#x27;Team Player&#x27; Image&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LJxRAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=02wDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7083%2C4907609 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1960s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;, &lt;big&gt;1969&lt;/big&gt; <br class="br">Context: The 100 grand right fielder revealed that Danny Murtaugh once fined him $650 when he did not run after hitting a ball to the shortstop. He never explained how Murtaugh reached the $650 figure. &quot;I hit the ball and I slip at home plate and they fine me $650. First time up I hit a homer one-handed. I just limped around the bases.&quot;

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Advice given to teammate Dick Stuart on April 7, 1959, as quoted in &quot;The Scoreboard: Meet Ball, Homers Will Come, Clemente Assures Stuart&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IEIqAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=aU4EAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7149,2639076 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Wednesday, April 8, 1959), p. 43 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1950s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;, &lt;big&gt;1959&lt;/big&gt;

Circa 1970, &#x27;71 or &#x27;72, responding to the novel approach facetiously suggested by teammate Steve Blass, were he ever to be traded from the Pirates; as quoted in &quot;A Teammate Remembers Roberto Clemente” by Steve Blass, as told to Phil Musick, in Sport (April 1973); reproduced in Clemente! https://books.google.com/books?id=n-4qAwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT60 (1973) by Kal Wagenheim, p. 158 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1970s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;

Discussing his game-winning 7/14/61 grand slam, and contrasting it with a prodigious shot hit on 5/6/60 http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Roberto_Clemente%27s_%27Toolbox%27:_The_Club#Clemente.27s_majestic_May_6.2C_1960_blast_into_the_teeth_of_Candlestick.27s_crosswind.2C_described_by_Arnold_Hano, also at Candlestick Park; as quoted in &quot;The Big Grand Slam: Clemente Was All Set&quot; by Phil Berman, in The San Francisco Chronicle (Saturday, July 15, 1961), p. 26 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1960s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;, &lt;big&gt;1961&lt;/big&gt;

Speaking before Game 7 of the 1971 World Series, as quoted in &quot;Numero Uno: Roberto!&quot; http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vobx891junlic4/.JPG (1973) by Bill Christine, p. 141 <br class="br">Baseball-related, &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;1970s&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/big&gt;

As quoted in "Koufax Still a Champion" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (May 8, 1967)

On his chances for a third consecutive NL batting title; as quoted and paraphrased in "Clemente Not Thinking of Batting Title" by Milton Richman, in The Cumberland Evening Times (Tuesday, March 15, 1966), p. 12
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1966</big>
Context: “I never think about that before the season. Toward the end of the year I start thinking about it. Not before. I did it last year by just meeting the ball,” he said. “I didn’t swing hard at all. I think I’m going to do the same thing this year. We have two good hitters behind me now and I don’t have to swing so hard.” He means Donn Clendenon and Willie Stargell. The two hit a total of 41 homers to Clemente’s 10 last year. “They always say we need someone to hit home runs. We got some guys who can now. I don’t care for home runs. I showed ’em I could do it when I hit 23 in 1961. Home runs aren’t that important, though. Not to me, anyway.”