Pete Rose Sports Quotations

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

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.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

Never bet on 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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