Pete Rose Quotes

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.

I care about runs scored and RBIs. Those are the most important things for me.

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.

I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

Don’t take yourself too seriously.

I think it's good to, especially when you start to get to achieve certain levels of success and start doing a lot of interviews and having a lot of reviews, it would be quite easy to get pretty full of yourself. I think it's an important thing to try and keep yourself in check and just be aware that popularity doesn't necessarily run in parallel to quality.

Aquamen is unique in the sense that he does it without ego. He doesn't always have to be right. He's made a lot of mistakes, and he really takes those to heart.

Humility, humility, humility, and humility.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.