Ty Cobb famous quotes

07-19-2025

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 #Fun #Struggle
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
-- Ty Cobb

#Weapons #Bats #Balls
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
-- Ty Cobb

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

#Inspirational Sports #Fire #Losing
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
-- Ty Cobb

#War #Games #Nerves
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 #Money #Player
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
-- Ty Cobb

#Regret #College #Doctors
The crowd makes the ballgame.
-- Ty Cobb

#Crowds #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

#Baseball #Hurt #Business
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
-- Ty Cobb

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

#Baseball #Hundred
I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
-- Ty Cobb

#Next
I've got to be first. ALL the time.
-- Ty Cobb

#Leadership #Sports #Firsts
Don't come home a failure.
-- Ty Cobb

#Home #Coming Home
He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
-- Ty Cobb

#Games #Finest #Natural
That boy Mantle is a good one.
-- Ty Cobb

#Baseball #Boys
To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
-- Ty Cobb

#Increase #Tension
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
-- Ty Cobb

#May #Fierce #Lows
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 #Challenges #Way
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
-- Ty Cobb

#Baseball #War #Heavy
No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
-- Ty Cobb

#Men #Games #Perfect
Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
-- Ty Cobb

#Too Much #Speed
The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
-- Ty Cobb

#Baseball #Player #Important
I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
-- Ty Cobb

#Proud #Hardest
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 #League #Three
When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
-- Ty Cobb

#School #Sunday #Boys
Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
-- Ty Cobb

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

#Differences #Speed #Bigs
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

#Fighting #Beats

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