What I said was "Here, look at all these marks I got on my body from different injuries. Nobody ever writes anything about these, but they always wri… - Roberto Clemente

Blass, if you pitch me inside, I will hit forty-three home runs a year, thirty-seven of them off you!

I listened to the San Juan games on the radio and my idol was Monte Irvin, because he not only was a good hitter but had a very good arm. Even my friends called me Monte Irvin as a nickname. I never thought I’d be good enough to play pro ball. I always felt you had to be like Superman to play professionally. But in 1952, at age 17, I signed a contract with Santurce. My bonus? It was $500 and one glove. They also paid me $30 a week. Two years later – when I was 19 – there were eight or nine big league teams after me and I signed with the Dodgers for a $10,000 bonus. This was a big day in my life.

In other years, we talk pennant with mouth, do nothing on field. This year we do our talking on field, keep mouths closed about pennant.