Quotes from Pete Rose

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

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

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

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

I don't have the average thirty-eight year-old's body. I know my face looks old, but if you slid head first for sixteen years you'd be ugly too.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

My body is my best asset.

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.