216 Quotes by Pete Rose

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

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.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

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

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.