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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. "
Pete Rose
Gone
Know
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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. "
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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. "
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" Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno? "
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" I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never. "
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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. "
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" No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you. "
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Say
Going
" Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. "
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Like
Playing
" 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. "
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" I had an addiction to play 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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Alone
Kick
" I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball. "
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Getting
Back
Bed
" Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well. "
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Pretty
Well
Doing
" When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth. "
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Stories
Books
Guys
" 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. "
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" If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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