Quotes by Pete Rose - Page 3

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 / Baseball Player
Birthday
Daughter
Smile
Sports
Looking Forward
Mother
Apply
Forward
Looked
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Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Appearance
Obama
African
Board
Speaker
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Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Home
Desire
Enthusiasm
Hustle
Aaron
Hit
Too
Could
Talents
God-Given
Got
Hank
Home Runs
Mays
Runs
Throw
Willie
Willie Mays
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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 / Baseball Player
Hard Work
Practice
Reality
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Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Alone
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Taught
Time Me Long
Alone Time Me
Anderson
Butt
Leave
Pat
Treat
Ways
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Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Arms
Association
Appealing
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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 / Baseball Player
Fun
Games
Winning
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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 / Baseball Player
Baseball
Betting
Mistake
Team
Throwing
Mistakes
Bet
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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 / Baseball Player
Bats
Greater
Me Will Never
Hits
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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 (Ty) Cobb.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Bats
Player
Records
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Squares
Thinking
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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.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Baseball
Baseball Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Fame
Football
Football Player
Player
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Gave
Hall
Wants
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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 / Baseball Player
Leadership
Running
Sports
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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.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Dog
Get Well
Media
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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 / Baseball Player
Motivational
Sports
Momentum
Paper
Thinking
Picture
Your Lose Important
Base
Fastest
Gets
Lose
Safest
Slide
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I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Carter
Clinton
Dwight
Jimmy
Senior
Although
General
Bill
Bill Clinton
Bush
Eisenhower
Ford
George
George Bush
George W. Bush
Richard
Jimmy Carter
Letter
Met
Nixon
Richard Nixon
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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.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Benches
Rose
Watches
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I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Grateful
Punishment
Wrongdoing
Judges
Ours
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When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Nice Guy
Yelling
Home Game Me
Pitchers
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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 / Baseball Player
Daughter
Husband
Son
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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 / Baseball Player
Laid Back
Laid
Manager
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I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Sports
Barack
Brother In Law
Congress
House
White
White House
Always People Person
Obama
Articulate
Athletes
Barack Obama
Coach
Policies
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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 / Baseball Player
Team
Thinking
Winning
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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 / Baseball Player
Bragging
Get Up
People
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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 / Baseball Player
Baseball
Games
Player
Bart
Commissioner
Pretty Good
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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 / Baseball Player
Baseball
Mike
Offensive
Best History Believe
As Far As
Bench
Catcher
Johnny
Record
The History Of
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Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Christmas
Pounds
Railway
Time Work Me
Gain
Gain Weight
Reached
Weighed
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I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Right Place
Sat
Me People Never
Me People Anything
Me People Find
Anonymous
Classes
Figure
Gamblers
Similarities
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Batting
Bob
Games
Hell
Hood
Missing You
Wanted
Against
Sure
Greatest
Game
Miss
Close
Competitor
Deal
Fast
Gibson
Talked
Worked
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Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Forfeit
Replay
Strong
Umpires
Power Man Will
Ballpark
Base
Game
Seen
Call
Run
Close
Gonna
Notice
Union
Underneath
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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 / Baseball Player
Baseball
Block
Giving Up
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I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Baseball
Girlfriend
Mistake
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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.
Pete Rose / Baseball Player
Running
Valentine
Baseball
Mean
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