All Pete Rose Quotes
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Pete Rose
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When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
Pete Rose
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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.
Pete Rose
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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
Pete Rose
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The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Pete Rose
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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.
Pete Rose
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The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
Pete Rose
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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.
Pete Rose
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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.
Pete Rose
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With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose
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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose
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I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
Pete Rose
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