216 Quotes by Pete Rose

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.

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

I owe baseball. Baseball don’t owe me a damn thing.

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.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can’t ever stop.

When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

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.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don’t do anything until I come back.

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.