Pete Rose Quotes

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

Yankee caps pop up all over the world, not as a statement of loyalty to that team, but as a symbol of - what? Winning 27 so-called World Series? Much of the world doesn't even play that sport.

Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.