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I'd be willing to bet you, if I was 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
Betting
Baseball
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Sports
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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'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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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'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
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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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You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
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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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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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If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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 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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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 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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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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