Roberto Clemente Quote

I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.


Addressing reporters at post-game press conference on Roberto Clemente Day, as quoted in "Roberto Clemente's a Man of 2 Lives... and 2 Loves" by the Associated Press, in The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (July 26, 1970)

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I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.

I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.

I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.

I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.