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“Everybody, they say Roberto just swings the bat and hits the ball. I work hard. No one works harder than I do. People think things come easy to me. They don't.
— Roberto Clemente
Baseball player and humanitarian
As quoted in "Clemente Says Hitting Does Not Come Easy" by Ralph Bernstein (AP), in The Reading Eagle (March 26, 1968)
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