Best 70 quotes of Pete Rose on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

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

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.

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

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

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

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

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.

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

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

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

I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There's pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong.

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

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

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.

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

I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.

I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

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

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

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

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 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.

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

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

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

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.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

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.

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

People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

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

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

See the ball; hit the ball.