Pete Rose Quotes - Page 3

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• I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Motivational Sports

  "10 Confessions Even Less Shocking Than Floyd Landis's" by Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2010.

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Want, Way

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• The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Running, Team

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Damn, Damn Things

  "Pete Rose Admits He Bet on Baseball". ABC News, abcnews.go.com.

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• I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Night, Bed

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. January 19, 2006.

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• When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

  Pete Rose

  People, Bragging, Get Up

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Thinking, Chance, Fame

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Wish, Firsts

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2017.

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• The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Way, Ifs

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Player, Games

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A with ABC NEWS viewers, abcnews.go.com.

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Steroid, Halls, Knows

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

  Pete Rose

  Uniforms, Retired, Stills

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• I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

  Pete Rose

  Vegas, Months

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• He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Bats, Eric

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• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Missing You, Sports, Games

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Games, Individual

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Birthday, Sports, Daughter

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• I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Betting, Suspended

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. Januray 19, 2006.

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• I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.

  Pete Rose

  Thinking, Important, Fans

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.

  Pete Rose

  Strong, Wine, California

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• I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.

  Pete Rose

  Dog, Get Well, Media

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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.

  Pete Rose

  Fans, Helping

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• What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Games, Guy

  "Major League Baseball plans to ban home plate collisions by 2015 at the latest", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

  Pete Rose

  Rose, Watches, Benches

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