Pete Rose Quotes

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

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

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

If I'm making consistent contact, even if they're outs or right at somebody, if I'm just making consistent contact, I'm happy.

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.

I know about winning batting titles.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

You have so many at-bats, and obviously if you go three out of 10, you're doing well for the season, so you try to forget every at-bat you have that's not a good one and try to stay positive.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

I hate it, but a popout is the same as a strikeout. It's a matter of productive at-bats, a matter of how you do it.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats.

Still humping the American Dream