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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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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
Baseball Player
Cincinnati
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Peter Edward Rose
Sr.
Charlie Hustle
Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr.
Pete Edward Rose
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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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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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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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