Pete Rose Quotes

Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.

- Pete Rose

American, Being, Obama, African American

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

Bill Clinton, Nixon, Bush, Ford

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

- Pete Rose

Game, Baseball Game, Bet, Picked

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

- Pete Rose

Some, Other, Gamblers, Similarities

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.

- Pete Rose

Goal, Give, Ultimate Goal, Baseball Player

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

- Pete Rose

Hit, Who Cares, Cares, Bunt

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

- Pete Rose

Chance, Second Chance, Give, Give Me

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

- Pete Rose

Best, Catcher, Mike, Johnny

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

Game, Against, Made, Betting

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

- Pete Rose

Back, Express, About, Gain Weight

I know about winning batting titles.

- Pete Rose

Winning, Batting, About, Titles

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

Enough, Resources, Got, Investigators

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

Understand, Plate, Allowed, Block

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

- Pete Rose

Games, Wins, Two-Thirds, Pennant

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

- Pete Rose

Me, Always, Wants, Interview

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

- Pete Rose

Born, I Was Born, Lincoln, Titanic

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

- Pete Rose

Records, Accused, About, Interview

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

- Pete Rose

Reason, Next, Sliding, Slide

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

Think, Pitchers, Took, Knocking

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

- Pete Rose

Lie, Come, About, Screw

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

- Pete Rose

Baseball, Bet, Admitted, Suspended

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.

- Pete Rose

Some, Congress, Obama, Articulate

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

- Pete Rose

Old, Batting, Runway, Dugout

Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.

- Pete Rose

Spark, Sometimes, Someone, Dugout

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

- Pete Rose

Baseball, Play, Through, Play Baseball

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.

- Pete Rose

Play, Year, Fifteen, Play Baseball

I had an addiction to play baseball.

- Pete Rose

Addiction, Play, Had, Play Baseball

Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

- Pete Rose

Desire, Could, Willie, Runs

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.

- Pete Rose

Head, Other, Ways, Steroids

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

Against, Them, Hall, Steroids

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

Think, Making, Made, Steroids

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

- Pete Rose

Love, Game, I Love, Cincinnati

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

- Pete Rose

Baseball, Always, Part, Defensive

Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?

- Pete Rose

Safe, Obligation, Within, Runner

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

Game, Like, Teams, Cubs

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.

- Pete Rose

Strong, Game, Play, Base

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

Manager, Will, Laid, OK

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.

- Pete Rose

Grateful, Nation, Individual, Judges

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.

- Pete Rose

Game, Play, Means, Twenty

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

- Pete Rose

Manager, Over, Than, Umpires

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

Game, Pretty, Going, Bart

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

- Pete Rose

Lose, Other, Gotta, I Believe

I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game.

- Pete Rose

Love, Game, Night, I Believe

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

- Pete Rose

Night, Go, Bed, Worried

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

I Am, Offensive, Advantages, Switch

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

Like, Come, About, Jimmy

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

- Pete Rose

Book, Understand, Wrote, None

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

Strong, Big, Using, Tall

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

- Pete Rose

Living, Like, Having, License

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 Cobb.

- Pete Rose

Will, Most, Also, Bats

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

- Pete Rose

Uniform, Still, Then, Retired

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

- Pete Rose

Begin, Sure, Hall, Mark

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

- Pete Rose

World, Second Chances, Given, Chances

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

Deal, Batting, Battling, Close

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

- Pete Rose

Poor, Japan, Were, Sister

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.'

- Pete Rose

Treat, Pat, Anderson, Butt

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

- Pete Rose

Horse, Some, Biggest, Big-Time

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

Young, Seven, Records, Player

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

- Pete Rose

Belongs, Robinson, League, Higher

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

- Pete Rose

See, Stories, Books, Guys

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

- Pete Rose

Sorry, How, Times, How Many Times

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

Birthday, New, Looked, Daughter

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

- Pete Rose

Work, Vegas, Here, I Came

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

- Pete Rose

Like, Everybody, Hits, Everybody Else

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

- Pete Rose

Own, Go, Still, Gamble

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

- Pete Rose

Better, Than, Joe, Nicer

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

- Pete Rose

Know, About, His, Size

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

- Pete Rose

Sports, Ball, Square, Bat

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

- Pete Rose

Me, Damn, Damn Thing, Owe

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

- Pete Rose

Money, Making, Should, Positions

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

- Pete Rose

Alone, Some, Pat, Kick

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

- Pete Rose

Game, Old, Could, Four

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

- Pete Rose

Manager, Like, Move, Horses

My body is my best asset.

- Pete Rose

Best, Body, Asset

Never bet on baseball.

- Pete Rose

Baseball, Never, Bet

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

- Pete Rose

Baseball, Bet

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

- Pete Rose

Remember, Wish, I Wish, Bet

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

- Pete Rose

Stupid, Want, Does, Fans

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

Play, Within, Which, Arms

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

- Pete Rose

Game, Never, Individual, Baseball

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

- Pete Rose

Doing, Pretty, Been, Baseball

See the ball; hit the ball.

- Pete Rose

See, Ball, Hit

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

- Pete Rose

Mean, Go, Going, Gambling

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

- Pete Rose

Over, Any, Sport, Dominate

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

- Pete Rose

Think, Bigger, Going, Sport

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

- Pete Rose

Time, Winning, Big, Teams

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

- Pete Rose

Practice, Some, Dad, Taught

I love WWE.

- Pete Rose

Love, I Love, WWE

I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.

- Pete Rose

Strong, Like, Dad, Built

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