Ty Cobb Quotes
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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?
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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
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The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
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Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
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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.
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A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
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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.
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The crowd makes the ballgame.
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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.
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He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
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The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
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I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
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Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
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The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
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I've got to be first. ALL the time.
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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.
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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That boy Mantle is a good one.
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Don't come home a failure.
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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.
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When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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