Name	Ty Cobb (Tyrus Raymond Cobb)
Build	Athletic
Date of Birth	December 18, 1886
Birthplace	Narrows, GA
Star Sign	Sagittarius
Died	July 17, 1961 (Aged 75)
Location of Death	Atlanta, Georgia
Cause of Death	Cancer
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Occupation	Baseball
Celebrity Index	Ty
Claim to Fame	The Georgia Peach
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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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The crowd makes the ballgame.

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

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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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To get along with me, don`t increase my tension.

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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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Don`t come home a failure.

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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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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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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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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

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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 never could stand losing. Second place didn`t interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

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

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See also Trivia Index (T) :: Quotes Index (T) :: Connections Index (T)

• Ty Cobb and Frances Cass
• Ty Cobb and Charlotte Lombard

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