Pete Rose Quotes

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

I always tried to be Mark McGwire and hit homers like he did. I was kind of following his race, too, when he was trying to break the record.

Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.

I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

My family loves Mark McGwire.

I could have been the next Babe Ruth. No doubt about it.

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.