Quotes of Ty Cobb - somelinesforyou

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

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

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

- Ty Cobb

“ A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. ”

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

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

- Ty Cobb

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

- Ty Cobb

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

- Ty Cobb

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

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

“ A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. ”

- 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

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

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

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

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

“ The crowd makes the ballgame. ”

- Ty Cobb

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

- 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

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

- Ty Cobb

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

- Ty Cobb

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

- Ty Cobb

“ When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy. ”

- Ty Cobb

“ 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

“ 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
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