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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

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 don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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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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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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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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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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If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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 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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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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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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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
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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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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 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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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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