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Ty Cobb
American
Athlete
About the author
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#May
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Losing
#Interest
#Fire
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.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Men
#Survival
#Struggle
#Tea
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Baseball
Don't come home a failure.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Home
#Failure
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Theory
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Day
#College
#Regret
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Right
#Baseball
#War
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Difference
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,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Fight
To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Tension
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
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,
American
Athlete
#Challenge
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,
American
Athlete
#Love
#Baseball
#Trouble
#Today
#Money
#Excitement
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
#War
#American
#Nerves
The crowd makes the ballgame.
Ty Cobb,
American
Athlete
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,
American
Athlete
#Right
#Hurt
#First
#Feet
#Business
#Rules
#Fault