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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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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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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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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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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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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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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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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 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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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
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