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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.

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
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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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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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If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
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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 haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.
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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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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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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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See the ball hit the ball.
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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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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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I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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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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