Pete Rose Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation -- and it’s called October,”
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“I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.”
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“You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.”
-- Pete RoseSource : Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee
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“I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.”
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“Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.”
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“There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.”
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“The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.”
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“The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.”
-- Pete RoseSource : Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books
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“Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.”
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“Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.”
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“I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”
-- Pete RoseSource : Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale
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“Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.”
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“My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.”
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“It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.”
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“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.”
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“If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.”
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“Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.”
-- Pete RoseSource : Ralph Kiner, Joe Gergen (1987). “Kiner's korner: at bat and on the air-- my 40 years in baseball”, Arbor House Pub Co
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“If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.”
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“I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.”
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“I would think if someone connected to ***** made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.”
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“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 like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.”
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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 be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.”
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“I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.”
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“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.”
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“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 there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.”
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“Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.”
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“Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.”
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“I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.”
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“I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.”
-- Pete Rose
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