Pete Rose Quotes

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

It's definitely a dream come true playing for the Red Sox.

It was always a dream of mine to play for the Orioles.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

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

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

Baseball has been very good to me.

Baseball is just my job.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

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.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.