81+ Pete Rose Quotes On Hustle, Baseball And Dynamic

Pete Rose was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989. He was a three-time World Series champion, 17-time All-Star, and the all-time leader in hits, with 4,256. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Pete Rose on hustle, baseball, dynamic.

Top 10 Pete Rose Quotes

1. You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.
2. See the ball; hit the ball.
3. Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.
4. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
5. 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.
6. Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
7. Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.
8. I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
9. My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
10. If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

Pete Rose Short Quotes

• Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.
• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
• Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.
• The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
• Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
• I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
• I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
• He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
• I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

Pete Rose Quotes About Baseball

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose

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. — Pete Rose

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball. — Pete Rose

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage. — 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

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball. — Pete Rose

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball. — Pete Rose

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. — Pete Rose

Never bet on baseball. — Pete Rose

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet. — Pete Rose

Pete Rose Quotes About Play

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game. — Pete Rose

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

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. — Pete Rose

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks. — Pete Rose

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now. — 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

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. — Pete Rose

Pete Rose Quotes About Team

I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There's pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong. — Pete Rose

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses. — Pete Rose

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. — 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

Pete Rose Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. — Pete Rose

I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble. — Pete Rose

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square. — Pete Rose

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. — Pete Rose

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

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. — Pete Rose

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else. — Pete Rose

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me. — Pete Rose

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure. — Pete Rose

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean. — Pete Rose

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball. — 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

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose. — Pete Rose

Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position. — Pete Rose

I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple. — Pete Rose

If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse. — Pete Rose

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk. — Pete Rose

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

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder. — Pete Rose

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. — Pete Rose

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. — Pete Rose

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop. — Pete Rose

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

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. — Pete Rose

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball. — Pete Rose

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform. — Pete Rose

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything. — Pete Rose

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back. — Pete Rose

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years. — Pete Rose

When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers. — Pete Rose

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. — 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

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well. — Pete Rose

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

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank. — Pete Rose

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us. — Pete Rose

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it. — Pete Rose

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well. — Pete Rose

If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime. — Pete Rose

Life Lessons by Pete Rose

1. Pete Rose taught us that hard work and dedication can take you far in life. He worked hard to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and his success is a testament to his determination and commitment.
2. Pete Rose also taught us that making mistakes can have serious consequences. His gambling scandal resulted in a lifetime ban from baseball, and it serves as a reminder that we should always strive to make the right choices.
3. Finally, Pete Rose taught us that it's important to stay humble and never take success for granted. Despite his accomplishments, he always remained humble and grateful for the opportunities he was given.