Pete Rose

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.

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

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

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