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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
Willing
Sports
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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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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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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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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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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You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.
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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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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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See the ball hit the ball.
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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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 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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The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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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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