Ty Cobb Professions : Baseball player Born : December 18, 1886 Died : July 17, 1961 Browse All Authors Top 42 quotes by Ty Cobb 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. Ty Cobb baseball struggle fun A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. Ty Cobb bats balls weapons Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. Ty Cobb pitching baseball sports I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. Ty Cobb inspirational-sports losing fire 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 bases beats fighting 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. Ty Cobb powerful sports past 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. Ty Cobb psychology swings bats 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 money baseball motivational I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. Ty Cobb fierce may lows When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. Ty Cobb bases baseball games 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 average men No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today. Ty Cobb games perfect men 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 baseball hurt When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other. Ty Cobb streets doctors two The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders. Ty Cobb important player baseball Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. Ty Cobb johnson size baseball 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 umpires three league He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game. Ty Cobb finest natural games The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. Ty Cobb nerves games war The crowd makes the ballgame. Ty Cobb ballgame crowds Similar Authors Albert Belle baseball-player Bob Horner baseball-player Bob Wickman baseball-player Brian Gordon baseball-player Bronson Arroyo baseball-player Buster Posey baseball-player All Authors
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