Pete Rose Quotes
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The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
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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 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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What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of 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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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
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Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
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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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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
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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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Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.
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When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except 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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Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
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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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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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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'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
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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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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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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
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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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Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
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Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.
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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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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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I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
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