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.
Pete RoseI 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 RoseJay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.
Pete RoseIt'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 RoseIf baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
Pete RoseSomebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
Pete RoseDon Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.
Pete RoseThere is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Pete RosePractice 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 RoseDoctors 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.
Pete RoseDay after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.
Pete RoseI'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 RoseOnce you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
Pete RosePeople 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.
Pete RoseEvery 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.
Pete RoseCreating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
Pete RoseWhat's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
Pete RoseI would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
Pete RoseWhen 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.
Pete RoseIf you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.
Pete RoseIf 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.
Pete RoseI haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.
Pete RoseNo 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.
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