Pete Rose Quotes

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

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

Pete Rose
Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

Pete Rose
When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

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

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

Pete Rose