Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
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.
I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Never bet on baseball.
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
See the ball; hit the ball.
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
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.
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
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.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete’s career statistics include 14,053 at-bats, 5,752 total bases, 1,566 walks, 198 stolen bases, 79 sacrifice flies and 56 sacrifice bunts. He also had a career slugging percentage of .409 and an on base percentage of .375. Pete also amassed 167 career intentional walks, 135 triples, 1,314 RBI’s and was hit by a pitch 107 times.
Pete holds the modern-day National League record for longest consecutive game hitting streak with 44.
Pete holds the National League record for most career doubles with 746.
Pete holds the National League record for most years played at 24.
Pete is the only player to be voted to start an All-Star game at five different positions. They were 1B, 2B, 3B, LF and RF.
Pete holds the Major League record for most seasons with 100 or more games played at 23.
Pete has the Major League record for most seasons of 200 or more hits with 10.
Pete has the Major League record for most singles at 3,315.
Pete was named National League Rookie of the Year in 1963.
Pete hit better than .300 in fifteen different seasons.
During Spring Training of his rookie year, Pete got the nickname "Charlie Hustle" from Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford after he ran to first base after a walk.
Pete played in more career games (3,562) than any other player in Major League Baseball history.
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