Ty Cobb Quotes

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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Fun, Struggle

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Ty Cobb

Sports, Baseball, Pitching

"Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Ty Cobb

Inspirational Sports, Fire, Losing

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I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Ty Cobb

Fighting, Beats, Bases

"Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Ty Cobb

Bats, Balls, Weapons

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Ty Cobb

Motivational, Baseball, Money

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The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

Ty Cobb

Sports, Powerful, Past

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The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Player, Important

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The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

Ty Cobb

Swings, Psychology, Bats

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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Games, Bases

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

Ty Cobb

Men, Games, Perfect

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Don't come home a failure.

Ty Cobb

Home, Coming Home

Ty Cobb, William R. Cobb, Paul Dickson (2009). “My Twenty Years in Baseball”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Hurt, Business

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

Ty Cobb

May, Fierce, Lows

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Men, Average

"Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball". Book by Harvey Frommer, p. 72, 2008.

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Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Size, Johnson

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”

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He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.

Ty Cobb

Games, Finest, Natural

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The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Ty Cobb

War, Games, Nerves

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, War, Mlb

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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Ty Cobb

Baseball, Hundred, Percent

"Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Ty Cobb

Regret, College, Doctors

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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

Ty Cobb

Too Much, Speed

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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

Ty Cobb

Next

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When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

Ty Cobb

Doctors, Two, Streets

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Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

Ty Cobb

Jobs, Fighting, Men

Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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Born: December 18, 1886
Died: July 17, 1961
Occupation: Baseball player
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