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All Quotes by author - Pete Rose

" A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball. "

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

" Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars. "

" 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. "

" A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. "

" Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno? "

" 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. "

" Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't. "

" I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me. "

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

" I always liked the defensive part of baseball. "

" 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. "

" I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988. "

" I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport. "

" I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. "

" If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you. "

" If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. "

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

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

" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

" I know about winning batting titles. "

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