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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
Ball
Balls
Baseball

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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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'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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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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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting 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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except 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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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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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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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.
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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'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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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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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 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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The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
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