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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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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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If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.
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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'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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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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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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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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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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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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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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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