Quotes by Ty Cobb - Page 1

Don't come home a failure.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Failure
Home
Coming Home
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The crowd makes the ballgame.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Sports
Ballgame
Crowds
Crowd
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That boy Mantle is a good one.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Baseball
Boys
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A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
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Balls
Bats
Weapons
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I've got to be first. ALL the time.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Leadership
Sports
Firsts
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
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Baseball
Fun
Play
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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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Baseball
Hundred
Percent
Life My Life Baseball
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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
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Collision
Fields
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To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
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Bases
Increase
Tension
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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Fierce
Lows
May
Low
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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Speed
Too Much
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The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
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War
Games
Great American
Nerves
Unrelenting
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The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
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Baseball
Important
Player
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When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Boys
School
Sunday
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When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Doctors
Streets
Two
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He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Finest
Games
Natural
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Belly
Fire
Inspirational Sports
Losing
Second Place
Stand
Second
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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 / Baseball Player
Medical
College
Doctors
Regret
Doctor
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I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Hardest
Proud
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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Baseball
Bases
Games
Gentlemanly
Began
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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 Player
Baseball
Johnson
Size
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Pitcher
Pitching
Theory
Afraid
Batter
Works
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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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Assets
Differences
Greater
Quickness
Speed
Asset
Big Difference
Combined
Difference
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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.
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Men
Games
Perfect
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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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Bases
Beats
Fighting
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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.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
League
Three
Umpires
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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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Left
Life Me My Life
Against
Had
Life Fight Me
All My Life
Bastards
Beat
Them
Fight
Ditch
My Life
Survive
To Survive
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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 Player
War
Baseball
Mlb
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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Artillery
Baseball
Heavy
Observed
Unlike
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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.
Ty Cobb / Baseball Player
Challenges
Clubs
Left
Stupid
Against
Accept
Hit
Challenge
Field
Shift
Ted
Williams
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Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
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Baseball
Struggle
Supremacy
Survival
Tea
Stay
Sport
Fittest
Pink
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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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Motivational
Money
Baseball
Excitement
Thrill
Trouble
Love Money Great
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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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Baseball
Fun
Struggle
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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 Player
Business
Baseball
Feet
Hurt
Shoes
Speed
Business Always Me
Rules
Bag
Base
Baseman
Belonged
Full
Fault
Gave
No Business
Paths
Sharp
Stood
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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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Jobs
Men
Fighting
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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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Sports
Past
Powerful
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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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Bats
Psychology
Swings
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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 Player
Men
Average
Baseball
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