Pete Rose Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

Concentration is the ability to not think about anything.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the ball; hit the ball.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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