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Pete Rose
American
Athlete
About the author
I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Day
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,
American
Athlete
#Reason
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Money
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,
American
Athlete
#Years
#Play
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,
American
Athlete
#Will
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Saying
#Old
#Money
#Happiness
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Games
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Horses
#Manager
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,
American
Athlete
#Hell
Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
See the ball; hit the ball.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Living
Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Practice
#Father
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
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,
American
Athlete
#Daughter
#Birthday
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Play
#Hell
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,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Play
#Old
#Body
#Doctors
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
#Brooks
Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
Pete Rose,
American
Athlete