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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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Charlie Hustle
Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr.
Pete Edward Rose
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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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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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You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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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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See the ball hit the ball.
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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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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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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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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it come clean.
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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
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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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If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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