Quotes by Pete Rose

About Pete Rose:

Peter Edward is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989.
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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

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

Pete Rose

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.

Pete Rose

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

Pete Rose

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

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

Pete Rose

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

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

Pete Rose

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

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I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

Pete Rose

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

Pete Rose

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.

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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

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.

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

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

Pete Rose

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

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I know about winning batting titles.

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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 mi...

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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.

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Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

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Author Bio

  • NamePete Rose
  • Descriptionbaseball player
  • BornApril 14, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Baseball Player
  • AwardsMajor League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award; Rawlings Gold Glove Award