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You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

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
Hustle
Shortcomings
Surprised
Overcome
Overcoming
Many

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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 should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
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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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The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
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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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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
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I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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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 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 can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here I couldn't live anywhere else.
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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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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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Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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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 owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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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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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'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
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