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

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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
Smoking
Smoke
Hurt
Running
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Triple

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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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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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 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 owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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