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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. "
Pete Rose
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" The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. "
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" Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't. "
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" My body is my best asset. "
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" Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars. "
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" It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. "
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" Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively. "
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" I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball. "
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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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" Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game. "
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Should
" 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. "
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" We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.' "
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" Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.' "
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" I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player. "
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Good
Without
" With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. "
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" 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. "
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I Am
" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well. "
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" I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him. "
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