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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.

Pete Rose

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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
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Peter Edward Rose
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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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 somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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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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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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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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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 admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on 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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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of 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 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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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