Pete Rose

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

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.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

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.

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.

I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

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.

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.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

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.

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

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 at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

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, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.