Pete Rose Quotes

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Pete Rose

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : April 14, 1941

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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I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

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I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

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No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

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I know about winning batting titles.

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We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

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When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

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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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When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.

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Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

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I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.

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My body is my best asset.

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I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

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Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.

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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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You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

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I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

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I love WWE.

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When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

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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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