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, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I know about winning batting titles.

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

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

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

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

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

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