Pete Rose Quotes

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on the American people than any other institution.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.

Baseball is just a game, obviously, but it means a lot to a lot of different people.

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

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.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I don't know anything about baseball.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.