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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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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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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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You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.
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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 never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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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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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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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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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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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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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 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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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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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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