216 Quotes by Pete Rose

I made a big mistake. I was wrong. But I can't change it. I just wish people would understand and give me a second chance. I won't need a third chance.

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.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you’d have fun as well.

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

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

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.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn’t suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

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.

A hitter’s impatience is the pitcher’s biggest advantage.