Pete Rose Quotes About Baseball
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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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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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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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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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I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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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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A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
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I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.
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Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.
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You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
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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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See the ball; hit the ball.
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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'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play 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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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.
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People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.
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I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.
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I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.
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Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.
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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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He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
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