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Vote: | Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired. |
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Vote: | Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. |
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Vote: | I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. |
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Vote: | Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. |
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Vote: | Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose. |
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Vote: | Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses. |
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Vote: | The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. |
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Vote: | There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. |
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Peter Edward Rose, Sr. (born April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio), nicknamed Charlie Hustle, is an American former player and manager in Major League Baseball who played from 1963 to 1986, best known for his many years with the Cincinnati Reds. Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time major league leader in hits (4256), games played (3562) and at bats (14,053). He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, the Rookie of the Year Award, and made 18 All-Star appearances at an unequalled four different positions (2B, OF, 3B, 1B).
In August 1989, three years after he retired as an active player, Rose agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball amidst accusations that he gambled on baseball games while playing for and managing the Reds; this included betting on the Reds but not against them. After years of public denial, in 2004 he admitted the accusations were true. The Baseball Hall of Fame subsequently specified that individuals who are banned from the sport are ineligible for induction; those who were banned had previously been excluded by informal agreement among voters. The issue of his possible reinstatement and election to the Hall remains a contentious one throughout baseball.
Pre-professional career Rose grew up in a working class area of nearby Anderson Ferry, Ohio as one of four children to Harry and LaVerne Rose, and was encouraged as a young boy to participate in sports. His father, who played semiprofessional football, was the biggest influence on Pete and his sports career. He played both baseball and football at Western Hills High School. Rose paid so little attention to his studies in ninth grade that his teacher decreed he would have to attend summer school or be held back. His father vetoed that idea: it was better for his son to repeat a year of school, Harry Rose said, than miss a season playing ball. Barred from his high school team because of his poor performance in class, he got onto a Dayton amateur club instead and batted .500 against grown men. By the time Rose was graduated in 1960, he had impressed the Reds enough for them to offer him a $7,000 contract, with $500 more if he made it all the way to the major leagues and managed to stay there for a full year.
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