Quotes from Pete Rose

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

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

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Every 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.

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

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.

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

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

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