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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
Still
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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 you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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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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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 owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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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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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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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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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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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'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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