Quotes By Pete Rose

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

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

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

See the ball; hit the ball.

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.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

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.

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

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

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.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

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.

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

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

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.

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

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

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.

Never bet on baseball.

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