The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders. Ty Cobb More Quotes by Ty Cobb More Quotes From 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 baseballstrugglefun A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. Ty Cobb batsballsweapons Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. Ty Cobb pitchingbaseballsports I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. Ty Cobb inspirational-sportslosingfire 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 basesbeatsfighting 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 powerfulsportspast 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 psychologyswingsbats 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 moneybaseballmotivational I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. Ty Cobb fiercemaylows When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. Ty Cobb basesbaseballgames 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 baseballaveragemen No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today. Ty Cobb gamesperfectmen 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 businessbaseballhurt When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other. Ty Cobb streetsdoctorstwo Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed. Ty Cobb johnsonsizebaseball 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 umpiresthreeleague He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game. Ty Cobb finestnaturalgames The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. Ty Cobb nervesgameswar The crowd makes the ballgame. Ty Cobb ballgamecrowds I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. Ty Cobb doctorsregretcollege
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