Pete Rose Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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

• Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Letting Go, Believe

• Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

  Pete Rose

  Leadership, Sports, Running

• 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

• 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

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Running, Team

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Horse, Team

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

• 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.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Legs

• 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.

• I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Should Have, Shut Up

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Player, Leave Me Alone

• 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

  Sports, Zero, Mean

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Born, Shots

• 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

• I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

  Pete Rose

  Birthday, Sports, Daughter

• I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Different

• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, League, Brooks

• Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Thinking, Squares

• 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

• 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 miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Missing You, Sports, Games

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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