Pete Rose Quotes

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

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• Work
• Live
• Vegas

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

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• Sorry

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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

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• Respect
• Player

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

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I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

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• Titanic

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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• Up
• Football
• Player

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

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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

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• Baseball

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

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• Kids
• Gentleman

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

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• Game
• Baseball

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

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• Time
• Friends
• Horse

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

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• Doubt

Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

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• God
• Home
• Desire

I know about winning batting titles.

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• Winning

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

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• Up

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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