Pete Rose Quotes

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And if it's at a guy, it's an out. That's the beauty of baseball, really. There's not just one guy in control.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

I love baseball. I have a huge passion to play the game.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Baseball's what I do.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.