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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

Pete Rose

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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
Smoke
Hurt
Running
Trying
Triple
Smoking

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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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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 should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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 came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here I couldn't live anywhere else.
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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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