just wants to play baseball.
More Quotes from Pete Rose:
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
I made a big mistake. I was wrong. But I can't change it. I just wish people would understand and give me a second chance. I won't need a third chance.
Pete Rose
It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.
Pete Rose
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.
Pete Rose
I think, first of all, you have to understand I think I have a pretty good relationship with Mr. Selig, ... I do. It just took me a long time to meet him. I met him in Atlanta at the 1999 World Series when Selig lifted the ban so Rose could appear with the All-Century Team, first time. I believe he is a fair man.
Pete Rose
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
Pete Rose
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