Pete Rose
Baseball Player
1941-04-14
Books by Pete Rose
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My Prison Without Bars
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Quotes by Pete Rose
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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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There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
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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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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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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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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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I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
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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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No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
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Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
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Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
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I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.
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I never bet on baseball.
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I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.
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