“I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said "Compared to who?"”
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Morning Constitutions (2007)

“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”

From his 1971 World Series MVP acceptance speech, recalling the time in 1957 when he considered quitting baseball, as quoted in "Pittsburgh's Clemente Honored" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19711021&id=66lOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tQkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7211,3919174 by United {Press International, in The Wilmington Star-News (Thursday, October 21, 1971), p. 1-D
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>

I said, "No sir, you don't want me to work for you, the Child Welfare would have me in jail in a flash."
Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution (1996)

“When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.”
Source: The Story of an Hour

In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"