You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. Pete Rose More Quotes by Pete Rose More Quotes From Pete Rose The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game. Pete Rose games missing-you sports Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game. Pete Rose individual baseball games Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks. Pete Rose games winning fun I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble. Pete Rose daughter husband son I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple. Pete Rose hurt smoking running I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. Pete Rose daughter birthday sports I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball. Pete Rose girlfriend baseball mistake When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb. Pete Rose bats records player I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank. Pete Rose shots born sports I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. Pete Rose different sports two It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well. Pete Rose hard-work practice reality I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball. Pete Rose suspended betting baseball I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important. Pete Rose fans important thinking I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy. Pete Rose speed guy white I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball. Pete Rose baseball wish firsts I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player. Pete Rose basketball baseball football It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now. Pete Rose chill baseball play When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers. Pete Rose bragging get-up people I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game. Pete Rose team baseball mistake Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well. Pete Rose dollars games fun