Pete Rose Quotes

I don't have one specific person that I think is the most athletic person.

What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.

You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.

They are very light footed in walking and in running, as well the men as the women: so that a woman thinks nothing of running a league or two, as many times we saw them do: and herein they have a very great advantage over us Christians: they swim with an expertness beyond all belief, and the women better than the men

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

I've always been a pretty good athlete.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

I'm a really athletic person - I'm not that coordinated, but I'm really athletic, so I would play a superhero doing my own stunts in a heartbeat. But hopefully not taking swings at people. That's not a good idea for me.

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

We white people think that we know everything.

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.