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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. "

Pete Rose

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Baseball

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" I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily. "

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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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Horses

Team

" 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. "

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" 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. "

Pete Rose

Find

People

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

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Still

Uniform

" 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. "

" My body is my best asset. "

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

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Lie

Clean

" I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits. "

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

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

Pete Rose

Dad

Strong

" No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years. "

" 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. "

" 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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Aggressive

You

" They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball. "

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

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

Pete Rose

Simple

Going

" 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. "

Pete Rose

Game

Nice