Pete Rose Quotes

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

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I pitched and I played the outfield.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

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

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.

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

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.

I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.

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

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

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.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

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

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.

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.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.