Pete Rose Top 75 Quotes

The full name of this American former professional baseball player and manager is Peter Edward Rose. He also played Major League Baseball (MLB) for 23 years. From 1984 through 1989, he was also the manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

He is currently the all-time leader in MLB history and was a switch hitter. When he won three World Series rings and three batting titles, he became famous all around the world. He has also received one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, and Rookie of the Year. His repeated successes caused his admirers to remember him till the day they died. Following Pete Rose’s 89 quotations will help you advance in your career. Take a look at it once.

1. “If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won’t need a third.”― Pete Rose
2. “There’s other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.”― Pete Rose
3. “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
4. “CAN YOU BE A NICER GENTLEMAN, OR A BETTER MAN FOR YOUR SPORT OR YOUR KIDS THAN JOE PATERNO?”― PETE ROSE
5. “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
6. “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
7. “I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.”― Pete Rose
8. “I don’t go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.”― Pete Rose
9. “AM I STILL IN UNIFORM? THEN I AIN’T RETIRED.”― PETE ROSE
10. “My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.”― Pete Rose
11. “It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.”― Pete Rose
12. “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
13. “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
14. “I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.”― Pete Rose
15. “See the ball; hit the ball.”― Pete Rose
16. “Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.”― Pete Rose
17. “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
18. “I’M NOT GOING TO GO BACK TO GAMBLING; I MEAN, IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.”― PETE ROSE
19. “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
20. “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
21. “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
22. “I’m just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.”― Pete Rose
23. “The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.”― Pete Rose
24. “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
25. “Somebody’s gotta win and somebody’s gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.”― Pete Rose
26. “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
27. “I get accused of talking about records. But it’s the guys who interview me who ask about them.”― Pete Rose
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29. “I CAME TO VEGAS BECAUSE I WORK 20 DAYS A MONTH HERE; I COULDN’T LIVE ANYWHERE ELSE.”― PETE ROSE
30. “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
31. “They haven’t given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.”― Pete Rose
32. “There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.”― Pete Rose
33. “Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.”― Pete Rose
34. “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
35. “BROOKS ROBINSON BELONGS IN A HIGHER LEAGUE.”― PETE ROSE
36. “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
37. “I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”― Pete Rose
38. “Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.”― Pete Rose
39. “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
40. “The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can’t move unless he has the horses.”― Pete Rose
41. “With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions.”― Pete Rose
42. “Never bet on baseball.”― Pete Rose
43. “Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.”― Pete Rose
44. “I don’t think there’s any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.”― Pete Rose
45. “I ADMITTED I BET ON BASEBALL, BUT I WASN’T SUSPENDED FROM BASEBALL FOR BETTING ON BASEBALL.”― PETE ROSE
46. “You know, baseball’s not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.”― Pete Rose
47. “I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.”― Pete Rose
48. “I owe baseball. Baseball don’t owe me a damn thing.”― Pete Rose
49. “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
50. “I can’t remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.”― Pete Rose
51. “I’m not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.”― Pete Rose
52. “I always liked the defensive part of baseball.”― Pete Rose
53. “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
54. “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
55. “When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.”― Pete Rose
56. “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
57. “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
58. “Sometimes, when you don’t have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.”― Pete Rose
59. “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
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. “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
62. “If you screw up and do something, don’t lie about it; come clean.”― Pete Rose
63. “I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.”― Pete Rose
64. “No matter how many times you say you’re sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.”― Pete Rose
65. “I know about winning batting titles.”― Pete Rose
66. “We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, ‘Made In Japan.’”― Pete Rose
67. “When somebody wants to interview me, I’ve always got something to say.”― Pete Rose
68. “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
69. “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
70. “Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.”― Pete Rose
71. “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
72. “I’m built like my dad. Stocky, strong.”― Pete Rose
73. “My body is my best asset.”― Pete Rose
74. “No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.”― Pete Rose
75. “I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.”― Pete Rose