Pete Rose Quotes

It's the best part of music when we play music for free to give back to people. My band always plays better and I always play better when I know I'm playing for free to help heal or benefit or feed or educate someone. . . . It doesn't matter how many times you do concerts for Africa or South America or Indians. If people steal some of it, keep doing it. They can't steal all of it.

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During the times I gambled as a manager, I never took an unfair advantage, ... I never bet more or less based on injuries or inside information. I never allowed my wagers to influence my baseball decisions. So in my mind, I wasn't corrupt.

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I should have had the opportunity to get help, but baseball had no fancy rehab for gamblers like they do for drug addicts, ... If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block -- lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence. ... Right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime -- so I denied the crime.

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Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I want to know one thing. Did you bet on baseball' ... I looked him in the eye. 'Sir, my daddy taught me two things in life -- how to play baseball and how to take responsibility for my actions. I learned the first one pretty well. The other, I've had some trouble with. Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball.'

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Here's my take on steroids We can say anybody took steroids. We don't know. Unless you took steroids the last two years, I don't care.

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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

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I like Rose as a person. He played with great passion.I think he made a tragic mistake. We all make mistakes. You forgive and you move on. But Rose made a tragic mistake in not telling the truth. That's a tough nut for Bud ( Selig ) to handle. It was a sickness with (Rose). He'd go to the dog track and he'd bet two or three thousand dollars on the dog running. He loved the action. You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds. if they get deep into you they're going to say, 'Do this or do that.'

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

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had been an alcoholic or a drug addict, baseball would have suspended me for six weeks and paid for my rehabilitation.

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

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just wants 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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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

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I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things be an alcoholic be a drug offender beat their wife or husband or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

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He pitched me like it was the seventh game of the World Series, ... I guess he thought it was Joe DiMaggio up there.

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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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This is a tragedy. Anyone who knows this young man knows he is a very, very fine young man. The use of this stuff is common. It's used as a sleep aid by many people in sports.

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I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

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

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Never bet on baseball.

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Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

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I broke the record on Sept. 11 and I was born the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank (April 14).

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Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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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.

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