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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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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
Baseball
Willing
Sports
Never
Betting

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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 should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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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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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 somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
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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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