Pete Rose Quotes

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Pete Rose

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : April 14, 1941

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

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Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

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If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

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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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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

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Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

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The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

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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 Cobb.

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When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

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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 go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

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No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

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In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

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Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

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I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

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