A biography for Pete Rosehasn’t been written yet.
“I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.”
“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.”
“See the ball; hit the ball.”
“Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?”
“Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.”
“Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.”
“I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.”
“The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.”
“No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.”
“If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.”
“In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.”
“I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.”
“A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.”
“Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?”
“Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.”
“There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.”
“Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.”