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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

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
Baseball
Thing
Damn

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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 way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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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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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, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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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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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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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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 don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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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 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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I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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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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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