“I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.”
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Famous Pete Rose Quotes
“I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.”
“You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.”
“I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.”
“Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.”
“The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.”
Source: Pete Rose: my life in baseball
“The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.”
“Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.”
“Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.”
“I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.”
“Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.”
Source: My Prison Without Bars
“Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.”
“When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.”
“If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.”
“If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.”
“Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.”
“I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.”