Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand…

“A pink rose among a thousand white daisies stand out; be likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A pink rose among a thousand white daisies stands out; be likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

— Jerry Coleman

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

— Rod Carew

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…

— Pete Rose

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really…

— Reggie Jackson

I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

— Pete Rose

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in…

— Eric Davis

I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought…

— William J. Clinton

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then…

— Pete Rose

“Maybe that's why the good Lord gave us these vivid memory capabilities. When stress hits, we can just close our eyes, lean back and…

— Michael Buffalo Smith

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

— Steve Carlton