"No one drives himself like Clemente. I've never seen a more intense person. If Clemente were a football player, he'd make look like a pussycat."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Tutko (clinical psychologist who worked with the Pirates before the 1968 season), as quoted in "The Strain of Being Roberto Clemente: Baseball's Frustrated Superstar," Life (May 24, 1968), p. 70