216 Quotes by Pete Rose

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 should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

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

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.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

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.

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.