Pete Rose Quotes

I have never seen or heard anything to do with match-fixing in my time.

I don't even know what it means to fix a matchI, wouldn't know where to start.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

I have never had and will never have anything to do with manipulating match results.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

There is no team in the world that doesn't tamper with the ball.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

There is nothing more disgraceful for any sportsperson than to be accused of murky stuff like match-fixing or spot-fixing.

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.

In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.