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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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Hell
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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 always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.
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I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.
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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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You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.
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I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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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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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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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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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 admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
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