Pete Rose Quotes

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• Never bet on baseball.
• I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
• Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
• 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…
• There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
• I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging…
• I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
• I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
• I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to…
• People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power…
• Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
• I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
• I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
• You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
• I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.
• I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look…
• 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,…
• Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.
• The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

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