Pete Rose Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• See the ball; hit the ball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Balls

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

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

• You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Cubs, Knows

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

• People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Running, Valentine

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Stealing

• Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Balls, Language

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.40, Rodale

• A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Baseball, Impatience

• When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Baseball, Mind

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Motivational Sports

  "10 Confessions Even Less Shocking Than Floyd Landis's" by Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2010.

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Two

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Wish, Firsts

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2017.

• If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Gambling, Drug

• The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Way, Ifs

• 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.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Mistake, Team

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A, abcnews.go.com. January 12.

• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Player, Games

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A with ABC NEWS viewers, abcnews.go.com.

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Want, Way

• 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.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, White, Worry

• I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Betting, Suspended

  "Rose on gambling, baseball and the Hall". Interview with Graham Bensinger, www.espn.com. Januray 19, 2006.

• What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Games, Guy

  "Major League Baseball plans to ban home plate collisions by 2015 at the latest", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2013.

• 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.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Doctors

• I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Damn, Damn Things

  "Pete Rose Admits He Bet on Baseball". ABC News, abcnews.go.com.

• I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Girlfriend, Mistake

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