Pete Rose Was Better at Football … but He Chose Baseball to Avoid College (2010) — Transcript

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1. 0:00was it always like that field was it
2. 0:01always easy baseball was easy for you
3. 0:02were you
4. 0:03howard baseball wasn't easy did your dad
5. 0:05make you practice a lot would you have
6. 0:06one of those fathers that like just kind
7. 0:08of beat it in well you got to remember
8. 0:09now when i was growing up all we did was
9. 0:11play sports
10. 0:12we didn't have the things that kids said
11. 0:13we didn't have computers and iphones and
12. 0:15that kind of stuff were you pushed into
13. 0:17it or you just loved it right away
14. 0:18my father i was very lucky because my
15. 0:20father was an athlete
16. 0:21right and i was his bat boy for his
17. 0:23baseball water boy for his football and
18. 0:25ball boy for his basketball were you a
19. 0:27natural
20. 0:28no not at all you were not a natural a
21. 0:30lot of guys were
22. 0:31more ability than me but uh i had other
23. 0:34god-given talents i believe like
24. 0:36i had enthusiasm i still do i had a big
25. 0:39heart
26. 0:39i had worked where did they know when
27. 0:41did they know you like like
28. 0:42when mozart they did it because i was a
29. 0:44better football player in high school
30. 0:45when i was a baseball player then why
31. 0:46would
32. 0:46didn't you go into the football i don't
33. 0:48like school my mistake
34. 0:50and so instead of becoming a football
35. 0:52player you become a baseball player
36. 0:54because you didn't like school
37. 0:55because i didn't want to go to college
38. 0:56and play football the only reason i
39. 0:58wanted to go right into the minor
40. 0:59leagues and listen to this
41. 1:01the only reason i got an opportunity
42. 1:02because i had an uncle who was a scout
43. 1:04for the reds
44. 1:04did your father get to see you play yes
45. 1:07did he was he so proud of you yes he got
46. 1:09he got to see me play 63 through 70.
47. 1:12okay you got to see me playing the world
48. 1:13series you got to see me
49. 1:14uh when i had the collision home plate
50. 1:16in a 70 all-star game
51. 1:18i've never played hardball in my life i
52. 1:19was afraid the ball come to me and i'd
53. 1:20miss it
54. 1:21but you had none of those fears in other
55. 1:22words you were natural you were relaxed
56. 1:25right
57. 1:26that ball would come to you you didn't
58. 1:27panic am i correct
59. 1:29it's just like you don't panic with that
60. 1:31microphone in front of you
61. 1:33talking i'm fine oh you're great you're
62. 1:35the best coordination is a little off
63. 1:37well you know another thing i was always
64. 1:40very fortunate i always had great
65. 1:42teammates
66. 1:43well come on i did i had great i i was
67. 1:45surrounded by hall of famers
68. 1:47do you think it's ever going to happen
69. 1:48that you're in the hall of fame do you
70. 1:48think they'll ever forget well you just
71. 1:50i don't know i i don't you just have to
72. 1:52believe we live in america
73. 1:54and then americans are given second
74. 1:55chances but do you think there could be
75. 1:57a second trade do you think you could
76. 1:58get in
77. 1:59i would think i deserve one because i'm
78. 2:01the most positive guy there is in this
79. 2:03country about baseball
80. 2:04and you know baseball is easy to bash
81. 2:06today as you know