Pete Rose Quotes

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

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

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

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