"He ... goes to the plate half-scared. [...] He won the 1961 batting championship and there's no telling how good he would be if he wasn't scared."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Rogers Hornsby, as quoted in "Aha, Rajah" by Jim Murray, in The Los Angeles Times (Monday, April 16, 1962), p. B1 — Comment: In fairness to Hornsby, the brief Clemente interview that could have cleared up this commonly held misconception—echoed by Paul Richards below—was not published until August 1964.