Pete Rose Quotes - Page 2

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• See the ball; hit the ball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Balls

  58 Copy quote

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

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  Sports, Horse, Team

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

  13 Copy quote

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

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  Motivational, Baseball, Impatience

  8 Copy quote

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

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  Sports, Player, Leave Me Alone

  18 Copy quote

• Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

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  Thinking, Concentration, Ability

  4 Copy quote

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

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  Motivational, Baseball, Mind

  7 Copy quote

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

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  Sports, Born, Shots

  9 Copy quote

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

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  Reality, Games, Four

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

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  52 Copy quote

• I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

  Pete Rose

  White, Guy, Speed

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

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  Sports, Thinking, Squares

  9 Copy quote

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

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  Baseball, Balls, Language

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

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

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  Baseball, White, Worry

  6 Copy quote

• The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

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  Book, Years, Rose

  10 Copy quote

• I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

  Pete Rose

  Running, Hurt, Smoking

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

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

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  Baseball, Girlfriend, Mistake

  7 Copy quote

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

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Two

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• It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

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  Baseball, Play, Chill

  4 Copy quote

• I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

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  Daughter, Husband, Son

  9 Copy quote

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Different

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

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  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

  41 Copy quote

• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Giving Up, Block

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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• Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Car, Guy

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• 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 (Ty) Cobb.

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  Player, Bats, Records

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Stealing

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