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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

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
Two
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Baseball
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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 came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here I couldn't live anywhere else.
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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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Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.
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I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
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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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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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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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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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