Pete Rose Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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.

See the ball; hit the ball.