Pete Rose Quotes

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

It has been my purpose, since I have been placed in my present position, to make no speeches.

I wonder if we haven’t committed the most dreadful folly.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.

I think, when I was younger, I might have scored on the wrong basket. That wasn't too smart.

If I miss a pass at practice, I'm ticked off.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I don't talk in front of people.

It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.

I'm not a good interviewer.

You can't keep losing and say nothing in the dressing room.

I'm sure I've already made some mistakes that I'll wish I could take back.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.