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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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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
Investigators
Baseball
Resources
Wants
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The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
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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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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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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 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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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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See the ball hit the ball.
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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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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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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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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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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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I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic be a drug offender beat their wife or husband or gamble. I hope they would gamble.
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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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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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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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