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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
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Damn
Baseball

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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
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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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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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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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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 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 know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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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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You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.
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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
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See the ball hit the ball.
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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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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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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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