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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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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'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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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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You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
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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 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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I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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 admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on 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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I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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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Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.
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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 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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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.
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