Pete Rose Quotes - Page 2

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

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

See the ball; hit the ball.

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

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

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

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 (Ty) Cobb.

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

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