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, wheres the game going, he was pretty good. – Pete Rose
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone. – Pete Rose
Its a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. – Pete Rose
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. – Pete Rose
Im not a good father and theyre not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers morality in life and they were not my people any more. – Wilbur Smith
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska