Pete Rose Quotes

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I always get very calm with baseball.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

All I want to do is play baseball.

I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

I pitched and I played the outfield.

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

Baseball is a team game.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.