Top 137 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Rose
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.
Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.
Never bet on 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.
See the ball; hit the ball.
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.
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.
Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.
Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
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 don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.
Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.
I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'
They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
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.
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.
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.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
I always liked the defensive part of baseball.
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.
I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.
I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
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.
I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
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 know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
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