Pete Rose Quotes

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

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.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

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.

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.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

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

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.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

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

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.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

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.

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.

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

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.

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