Quotes from Pete Rose

I know about winning batting titles.

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

See the ball; hit the ball.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

I love WWE.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

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

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