Pete Rose Quotes

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I’m okay with that.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

It's doesn't just come overnight, you've got to train for it and believe in yourself; that's the most important thing.

Whether I'm 0-for-10 or 10-for-10, every time I walk to the plate I believe I'm going to hit a missile.

Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

The adrenaline is pumping before or during a game - you're excited, you're anxious. But the biggest things are just having fun and being confident. There really is no alternative because you just can't be negative. And a huge part of developing that confidence is by working hard every day, and I don't think that is limited to the baseball field. I think that bleeds over to all aspects of anything that you're doing or working on in life.

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.

If you want to be a quarterback in this league or Pee-Wee, you've got to believe, 'Hey, I'm the guy.'