Pete Rose Quotes

When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

One of the things you do in a baseball game is scream at the umpire in the hope that the next call will go your way.

It's a beautiful thing, baseball.

Catchers just aren't glamorous.

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

I dearly remember the old days... Fleetwood Mac had this one-of-a-kind charm. They were gregarious, charming and cheeky onstage. Very cheeky. They'd have a good time.

I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

I remember daydreaming out in the outfield: I wish I had more time. I want to read 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch. Even a home run, the sport's defining big blast, is only metaphorically exciting; a fly ball that leaves the yard changes the score but may offer no more compelling view than an outfielder staring up.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

You score runs to win games. That's how you do it.

By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

If I know it's going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.

I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.

I grew up playing in the outfield and junior year of high school I went over to first base and got some tidbits from my dad, but it kind of came naturally to me.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.