"My body is old and tired, but I'll bounce…" — Roberto Clemente

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“My body is old and tired, but I'll bounce back. I think Mazeroski can do the same if he takes off a few pounds and gives them to me. I need them.”

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Source:: On being informed that Mazeroski had claimed he wouldn't be retiring if he had Clemente's body; as quoted in "Sidelights on Sports: Monday Morning's Sports Wash" by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Monday, October 2, 1972), p. 24
Type:: quote
Confidence:: 0.60
Indexed:: 2026-07-04
Hash:: 6ca66faa1b3605cefb570d09c7c37c490025087b5a0601dcd4edf010432dc4ef

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