Ty Cobb Quotes

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

Don't come home a failure.

Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

That boy Mantle is a good one.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

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

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

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

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

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

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

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

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

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.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

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

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