216 Quotes by Pete Rose

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.

In my case, I broke the rules and I've been suspended 18 years. So if guys broke the rules the last two years then they have to be handed out some kind of sentence.

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

How can I be on a list that expires after 15 years if I'm suspended? ... It should be that time stops.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

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

I don't know. I didn't see them. All I know is Hank Aaron didn't take them, Willie Mays didn't take them, Roberto Clemente didn't take them. If I saw them, I'd tell you.

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.

He pitched me like it was the seventh game of the World Series, ... I guess he thought it was Joe DiMaggio up there.