Pete Rose quote: "Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too."

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a co...
PETE ROSE

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
PETE ROSE

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't hav...
PETE ROSE

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practic...
PETE ROSE

See the ball; hit the ball.
PETE ROSE

Never bet on baseball.
PETE ROSE

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
PETE ROSE

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
PETE ROSE

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
PETE ROSE

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b...
PETE ROSE

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

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame,...
PETE ROSE

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Nev...
PETE ROSE

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot ...
PETE ROSE

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on firs...
PETE ROSE

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. H...
PETE ROSE

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player...
PETE ROSE

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a diffe...
PETE ROSE

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
PETE ROSE

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. ...
PETE ROSE

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are pla...
PETE ROSE

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
PETE ROSE

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old....
PETE ROSE

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a ge...
PETE ROSE

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
PETE ROSE

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

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances ...
PETE ROSE

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
PETE ROSE

I've been wrong about six times as far as that goes. Now I am hoping they do something, but I sure a...
PETE ROSE

They know and you know and I know that if there's another strike, the people will come back. They al...
PETE ROSE

I think, first of all, you have to understand I think I have a pretty good relationship with Mr. Sel...
PETE ROSE

I made a big mistake. I was wrong. But I can't change it. I just wish people would understand and gi...
PETE ROSE

I don't know what he did the last two years. All I know is the guy can hit.
PETE ROSE

I used to tell him that with two outs and a man on second, I want Arnold at the plate.
PETE ROSE

How can I be on a list that expires after 15 years if I'm suspended? ... It should be that time stop...
PETE ROSE

I should have had the opportunity to get help, but baseball had no fancy rehab for gamblers like the...
PETE ROSE

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player wit...
PETE ROSE

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.
PETE ROSE

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. Th...
PETE ROSE

I'm all over that,
PETE ROSE

Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I want to know one thing. Did you bet on baseball?' ... I looked h...
PETE ROSE

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
PETE ROSE

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That w...
PETE ROSE

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
PETE ROSE

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old....
PETE ROSE

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
PETE ROSE

It's the best part of music when we play music for free to give back to people. My band always plays...
PETE ROSE

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I...
PETE ROSE

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
PETE ROSE

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. H...
PETE ROSE

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they...
PETE ROSE

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have ...
PETE ROSE

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that...
PETE ROSE

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, beca...
PETE ROSE

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had...
PETE ROSE

Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
PETE ROSE

I don't think Pete ran a red light or had a speeding ticket. That's the kind of kid he is, ... I wis...
PETE ROSE

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
PETE ROSE

I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the follo...
PETE ROSE

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
PETE ROSE

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't los...
PETE ROSE

I don't know. I didn't see them. All I know is Hank Aaron didn't take them, Willie Mays didn't take ...
PETE ROSE

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
PETE ROSE

I'm sure everybody's going to rebound and we'll be back next year or wherever we may end up down the...
PETE ROSE

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do ...
PETE ROSE

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.
PETE ROSE

During the times I gambled as a manager, I never took an unfair advantage, ... I never bet more or l...
PETE ROSE

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
PETE ROSE

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
PETE ROSE

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
PETE ROSE

I had an addiction to play baseball.
PETE ROSE

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
PETE ROSE

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down...
PETE ROSE

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their ...
PETE ROSE

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
PETE ROSE

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of th...
PETE ROSE

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
PETE ROSE

One thing about a hitting streak is the stamina.
PETE ROSE

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.
PETE ROSE

Four or five times a week, ... But I never bet against my own team, and I never made any bets from t...
PETE ROSE

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'
PETE ROSE

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't...
PETE ROSE

This is a tragedy. Anyone who knows this young man knows he is a very, very fine young man. The use ...
PETE ROSE

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.
PETE HAMILL

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
PETE SEEGER

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn'...
PETE TOWNSHEND

It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but...
PETE BURNS

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for...
PETE TOWNSHEND

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thin...
PETE BURNS

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M....
PETE HAMILL

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag...
PETE BURNS

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation jus...
PETE CARROLL

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to str...
PETE MARAVICH

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETE TOWNSHEND

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat...
PETE SEEGER

Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.
PETE GALLEGO

I'll be honest: I was a super-late bloomer, and I was kind of a prude.
PETE WENTZ

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely movi...
PETE DOMENICI

I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes...
PETE BURNS

We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in whic...
PETE SEEGER

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER

Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.
PETE SEEGER

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewis...
PETE SEEGER

If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, futur...
PETE SERMOND

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and ...
PETE SAMPRAS

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis mat...
PETE SAMPRAS

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells....
PETE SEEGER

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually strug...
PETE HOLIDAY

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to ha...
PETE SEEGER

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even ...
PETE GALLEGO

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required ...
PETE STARK

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the ...
PETE TOWNSHEND

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of...
PETE HAMILL

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportu...
PETE HEGSETH

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization again...
PETE HEGSETH

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washingto...
PETE HEGSETH

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity undersc...
PETE HEGSETH

As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to ...
PETE HEGSETH

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
PETE HEGSETH

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the sha...
PETE HEGSETH

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both...
PETE HEGSETH

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted...
PETE HEGSETH

Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt ...
PETE DAVIDSON

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
PETE HEGSETH

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that m...
PETE HEGSETH

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under ...
PETE HEGSETH

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
PETE HEGSETH

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valia...
PETE HEGSETH

It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to takin...
PETE HEGSETH

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be ...
PETE HEGSETH

I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Inva...
PETE HEGSETH

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand ...
PETE HEGSETH

The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the differe...
PETE HEGSETH

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught...
PETE WENTZ

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care...
PETE CARROLL

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need...
PETE CARROLL

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. T...
PETE HAMILL

The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T...
PETE HAMILL

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade ...
PETE MARAVICH

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I...
PETE SAMPRAS

Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Vetera...
PETE HEGSETH

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ea...
PETE FOUNTAIN

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it ...
PETE BEST

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those l...
PETE WENTZ

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
PETE TOWNSHEND

You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for ...
PETE BURNS

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in redu...
PETE DOCTER

I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. S...
PETE WENTZ

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you...
PETE ROZELLE

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
PETE WATERMAN

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
PETE HAMILL

My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu...
PETE BURNS

I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' ...
PETE WENTZ

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally hav...
PETE HEGSETH

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collaps...
PETE HEGSETH

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find ...
PETE EARLEY

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the fla...
PETE GALLEGO

To be completely honest, I think if I hadn't been bullied into the band, I would have been happi...
PETE TOWNSHEND

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up t...
PETE CASHMORE

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in ...
PETE SEEGER

HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texa...
PETE GALLEGO

The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our econom...
PETE SESSIONS

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a...
PETE TOWNSHEND

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I ...
PETE TOWNSHEND

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just flo...
PETE DOCTER

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the wa...
PETE STARK

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat...
PETE HEGSETH

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.
PETE GALLEGO

I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyel...
PETE WENTZ

If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
PETE HAMILL

Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
PETE DOCTER

Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
PETE DOHERTY

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could ...
PETE WENTZ

My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, befor...
PETE TOWNSHEND

I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoyi...
PETE DAVIDSON

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the p...
PETE TOWNSHEND

Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the ga...
PETE SAMPRAS

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the groun...
PETE DOMENICI

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don'...
PETE ROZELLE

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't t...
PETE HAMILL

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like ...
PETE WENTZ

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shel...
PETE EARLEY

'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive.
PETE HAMILL

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But th...
PETE SAMPRAS

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene...
PETE GALLEGO

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I h...
PETE SEEGER

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while t...
PETE PLOSZEK

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.
PETE WENTZ

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world...
PETE SEEGER

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, t...
PETE SESSIONS

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come afte...
PETE SEEGER

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine pri...
PETE SEEGER

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audie...
PETE POSTLETHWAITE

Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperati...
PETE GALLEGO

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in th...
PETE SAMPRAS

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support ...
PETE WENTZ

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of ...
PETE TOWNSHEND

Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili...
PETE HAMILL

Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

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Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

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