Pete Rose Quotes

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

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

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.

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

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

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

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

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

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

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

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

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

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

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

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

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

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

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

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

See the ball; hit the ball.

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

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

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Do you know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

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

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

Concentration is the ability to not think about anything.

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.