Pete Rose Games Quotations

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.

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.

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

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

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.