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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Pete Rose

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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
Baseball Player
Cincinnati
Ohio
Peter Edward Rose
Sr.
Charlie Hustle
Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr.
Pete Edward Rose
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I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic be a drug offender beat their wife or husband or gamble. I hope they would gamble.
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If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
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Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
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If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.
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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
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I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.
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I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.
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I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
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I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
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See the ball hit the ball.
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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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