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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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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
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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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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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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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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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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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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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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 think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.
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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except 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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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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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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You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.
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