216 Quotes by Pete Rose

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.

If baseball wants to get you, they’ve got enough resources and enough investigators that they’ll find a way to get you.

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

I’ve never looked forward to a birthday like I’m looking forward to my new daughter’s birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn’t live anywhere else.

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.

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.

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.

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.