Pete Rose Quotes
18 quotes by 14 authors
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
— Mickey Mantle
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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…
— Pete Rose
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Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
— Steve Carlton
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Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.
— Hank Aaron
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Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that…
— Mike Schmidt
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I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and…
— Ryne Sandberg
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Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
— Mike Schmidt
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Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.
— Sparky Anderson
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The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the…
— Sparky Anderson
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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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 a…
— William J. Clinton
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Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
— Mario Cantone
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I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.
— Walter Payton
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the…
— Walter Payton
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I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the…
— Eric Davis
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Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.
— Dave Anderson
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Pete Rose IS Baseball ~ Sparky Anderson
— Pete Rose
Who Wrote These Pete Rose Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 18 Pete Rose Quotes as follows: