'There's no sense of regret, no sense of shame, no sense of the damage he did to baseball.'
-- Former commissioner Fay Vincent
'I feel he has embarrassed me. I must have asked Pete 20 times, 'Did you bet on baseball?' He would look at me, blink his eyes and say, 'I didn't bet baseball. I have too much respect for the game.' '
-- Roger Kahn, who co-authored Rose's first autobiography, 'Pete Rose: My Story,' published in 1989.
'In the absence of evidence that his betting affected his performance on the field, he should be in the Hall.
-- Former Cincinnati Mayor David Mann
'It would be hard to trust Pete to manage. Now that he's admitted gambling, every little thing in his managerial style is going to be questioned.'
-- Former Red Eric Davis
'He committed the cardinal sin of baseball. If you give him a chance, how about the next guy who does it?'
-- Former major league manager Tommy Lasorda
'The only reason he's confessing now is that he finally realized it's the only way he'd be reinstated.'
-- Dayton Daily News sports writer Hal McCoy, a member of the writers' wing of the Hall of Fame.
'I have no problem voting for him if he gambled when he managed. He wasn't a very good manager and he's not going to go into the Hall as a manager. If I find that he gambled when he played ... I'd have to take a hard look at it.'
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Rick Hummel
'Maybe he's starting fresh and wants that slate clean. If I were him, I would want to put it all behind me. I would just have done it a lot sooner.'
-- Two-time Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen
'It's time to clean the slate. It's time to take responsibility, and I'm 14 years late.'
-- Pete Rose
