Top 100 Quotes About Pete Rose
#1. I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.
Ryne Sandberg
#3. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#4. Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
Steve Carlton
#5. Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and relax, and enjoy a game of Tidly-Winks, the sound of a Pete Rose baseball card in the spokes of our bike, or maybe a nice slice of watermelon - with a sprinkle of salt.
Michael Buffalo Smith
#6. If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
Jerry Coleman
#7. Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that?
Jim Bouton
#8. Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
Roy Blount Jr.
#9. I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.
William J. Clinton
#10. I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
Walter Payton
#11. I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.
Eric Davis
#12. We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.
Tug McGraw
#13. Check out my interview with Kostya Kennedy on themodern online. Sports Illustrated writer and author of Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. It may change your mind, one way or the other.
Kostya Kennedy
#14. Rose worked and played so hard that kids all across the country - not just in Cincinnati - were emulating him on sandlots everywhere, proud to dirty their jerseys doing a headfirst "Pete Rose" dive into cardboard boxes used for bases ... whether they needed to slide or not.
Tucker Elliot
#15. 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.
Pete Rose
#16. Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.
Jerry Coleman
#17. Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
Mike Schmidt
#18. 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.
Pete Rose
#19. Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.
Hank Aaron
#20. If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
Mickey Mantle
#21. Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.
Sparky Anderson
#23. I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, Fuck you, Shakespeare.
Jim Bouton
#24. WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.
Mr. T
#25. Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
Mario Cantone
#26. I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose
#27. I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
Pete Rose
#28. Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.
Pete Rose
#29. Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose
#30. 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.
Pete Rose
#31. Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
Pete Rose
#32. When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.
Pete Rose
#33. I know about winning batting titles.
Pete Rose
#34. I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
Pete Rose
#35. Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.
Pete Rose
#36. I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.
Pete Rose
#37. It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
#38. I had an addiction to play baseball.
Pete Rose
#39. If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.
Pete Rose
#40. I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
Pete Rose
#41. Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
Pete Rose
#42. I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.
Pete Rose
#43. No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.
Pete Rose
#44. A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.
Pete Rose
#45. There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Pete Rose
#46. If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
Pete Rose
#47. 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.
Pete Rose
#48. You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
Pete Rose
#49. 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.
Pete Rose
#50. The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Pete Rose
#51. 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.
Pete Rose
#52. They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
Pete Rose
#53. When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
Pete Rose
#54. No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
Pete Rose
#55. A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
Pete Rose
#56. If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.
Pete Rose
#57. I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.
Pete Rose
#58. 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.
Pete Rose
#59. 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.
Pete Rose
#60. If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
Pete Rose
#61. When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.
Pete Rose
#62. I always liked the defensive part of baseball.
Pete Rose
#63. Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.
Pete Rose
#64. I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
Pete Rose
#65. I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
Pete Rose
#66. You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
Pete Rose
#67. What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
Pete Rose
#69. Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?
Pete Rose
#70. I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.
Pete Rose
#71. I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
Pete Rose
#72. Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
Pete Rose
#73. Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
Pete Rose
#74. 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.
Pete Rose
#75. 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.
Pete Rose
#76. I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.
Pete Rose
#77. Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
Pete Rose
#78. I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
Pete Rose
#79. Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
Pete Rose
#80. Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.
Pete Rose
#81. Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.
Pete Rose
#82. I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.
Pete Rose
#83. There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
Pete Rose
#84. There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.
Pete Rose
#86. 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.
Pete Rose
#87. When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.
Pete Rose
#88. I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
Pete Rose
#89. I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.
Pete Rose
#90. 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.
Pete Rose
#91. The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.
Pete Rose
#92. I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
Pete Rose
#93. I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
Pete Rose
#94. I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
Pete Rose
#95. A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.
Pete Rose
#96. The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Pete Rose
#97. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose
#98. I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
Pete Rose
#99. 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.
Pete Rose
#100. The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
Pete Rose
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