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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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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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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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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.
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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
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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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The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.
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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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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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 you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
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Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
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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'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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