Pete Rose Quotes
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.
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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
