Author Profile
Pete Rose
1941 • American Baseball • Player
61
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Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesI never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.— Pete Rose
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.— Pete Rose
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.— Pete Rose
A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.— Pete Rose
I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.— Pete Rose
I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.— Pete Rose
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.— Pete Rose
Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.— Pete Rose
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.— Pete Rose
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 at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.— Pete Rose