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Favorite Ty Cobb Quotes

1. "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
2. "I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly." ~ Ty Cobb
3. "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
4. "To get along with me, don't increase my tension." ~ Ty Cobb
5. "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
6. "I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand." ~ Ty Cobb
7. "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
8. "Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life." ~ Ty Cobb
9. "Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher." ~ Ty Cobb
10. "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." ~ Ty Cobb
11. "I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor." ~ Ty Cobb
12. "The crowd makes the ballgame." ~ Ty Cobb
13. "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
14. "Don't come home a failure." ~ Ty Cobb

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