1. “See the ball; hit the ball.” – Pete Rose
2. “If you’re not active – and I’m not active – and you don’t watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.” – Pete Rose
3. “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.” – Pete Rose
4. “I’m just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.” – Pete Rose
5. “Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.” – Pete Rose
6. “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
7. “If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.” – Pete Rose
8. “The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.” – Pete Rose
9. “You know, baseball’s not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.” – Pete Rose
10. “I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.” – Pete Rose
11. “What’s the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.” – Pete Rose
12. “I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.” – Pete Rose
13. “My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.” – Pete Rose
14. “I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn’t live anywhere else.” – Pete Rose
15. “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
16. “Never bet on baseball.” – Pete Rose
17. “A hitter’s impatience is the pitcher’s biggest advantage.” – Pete Rose
18. “I can’t remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.” – Pete Rose
19. “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.” – Pete Rose
20. “When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.” – Pete Rose
21. “You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be – in baseball and in life.” – Pete Rose
22. “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.” – Pete Rose
23. “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
24. “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
25. “The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.” – Pete Rose
26. “I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn’t suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.” – Pete Rose
27. “Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don’t accept it.” – Pete Rose
28. “Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.” – Pete Rose
29. “There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.” – Pete Rose
30. “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.” – Pete Rose
31. “Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can’t ever stop.” – Pete Rose
32. “I don’t smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.” – Pete Rose
33. “You know what God told the Cubs? Don’t do anything until I come back.” – Pete Rose
34. “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
35. “Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.” – Pete Rose
36. “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
37. “If you screw up and do something, don’t lie about it; come clean.” – Pete Rose
38. “Don Gullett’s the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.” – Pete Rose
39. “Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you’d have fun as well.” – Pete Rose
40. “I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.” – Pete Rose
41. “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.” – Pete Rose
42. “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
43. “I don’t go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.” – Pete Rose
44. “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.” – Pete Rose
45. “I’m just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.” – Pete Rose
46. “You’d be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.” – Pete Rose
47. “I don’t like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There’s pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong.” – Pete Rose
48. “Unfortunately, gambling and winning don’t often go hand-in-hand.” – Pete Rose
49. “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
50. “It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.” – Pete Rose
51. “Pressure? Well it ain’t hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.” – Pete Rose
52. “I don’t like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There’s pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong.” – Pete Rose
53. “The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can’t move unless he has the horses.” – Pete Rose
54. “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
55. “I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.” – Pete Rose
56. “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.” – Pete Rose
57. “Somebody’s gotta win and somebody’s gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.” – Pete Rose
58. “Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don’t expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter’s box in the first place.” – Pete Rose
59. “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
60. “Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.” – Pete Rose
61. “Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.” – Pete Rose
62. “I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” – Pete Rose
63. “If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won’t need a third.” – Pete Rose