A Quote by Sparky Anderson

Pete Rose is baseball.

Sparky Anderson

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Sparky Anderson
American - Coach
February 22, 1934 - November 4, 2010

Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.

Mike Schmidt

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

Joe Buck

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.

Matt Gaetz

Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.

Dave Anderson

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.

Robert Frost

Pete Rose inspired my style of play, but should not be in the Hall of Fame.

Gabe Kapler

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

Mike Schmidt

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

Mike Schmidt

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

Mickey Mantle

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Steve Carlton

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

Mario Cantone

(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.