Ty Cobb Quotes

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

Life, Fight, Against

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
Ty Cobb

Along, Tension, Increase

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

May, Fierce, Low

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

Fire, Place, Losing

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

Love, Money, Great

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

Game, Baseball, Playing

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

War, Baseball, Down

The crowd makes the ballgame.
Ty Cobb

Makes, Crowd, Ballgame

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

Business, Hurt, Shoes

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Ty Cobb

Life, Baseball, Percent

Don't come home a failure.
Ty Cobb

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

Sports, Great, Him

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

Medical, Regret, College

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
Ty Cobb

Great, Big, Difference

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

Great, War, Game

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

Stupid, Him, Understand

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

Men, Struggle, Baseball

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 18, 1886

Died: July 17, 1961

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