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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I 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
Baseball
Wish
Remember
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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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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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If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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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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The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
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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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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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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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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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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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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Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
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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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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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