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" I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress. "

Pete Rose

Sports

White

House

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" Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone. "

" 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. "

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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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Know

" I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player. "

" 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. "

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

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Living

Playing

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

" The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses. "

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Horses

Team

" I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never. "

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

" There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids. "

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

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Damn

Damn Thing

" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

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

" 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. "

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Game

Nice

" There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. "

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

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Lie

Clean

" With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. "

" Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper. "

" When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb. "

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" Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something. "

" I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame. "