Ty Cobb Quotes

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

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Athlete, Gentlemanly, Celebrity

• 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

  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Athlete, Ted, Celebrity

• 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

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Players, Baseball, Excitement, Thrill, Today, Trouble

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

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Nerves, Unrelenting, War, Celebrity

• The crowd makes the ballgame.

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ballgame, Crowd

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseman, Bag, Feet

• Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference.

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Quickness, Celebrity, Difference

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

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Second, Fire, Losing, Interest

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

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fierce, Low

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Artillery, War, Right

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Bastards, Fighting

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

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Athlete, Pitcher, Celebrity

• Don’t come home a failure.

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Needs

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Survival, Baseball, Stay, Men

• Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

  Ty Cobb

  Tags in Baseball, Percent, One-Hundred

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

  Ty Cobb

  Tags in Medical

Ty Cobb (16)

Birth:	18th December, 1886
Death:	17th January, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

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