Pete Rose Quotes

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

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

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

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

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

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

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.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

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

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

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.

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

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

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

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

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 played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

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

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

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

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

When his enthusiasm goes he's through as a player.