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If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether! — Sheri Cobb South

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

It is a longstanding South-
ern tradition to call someone a "storyteller" as a polite
way of calling him a liar. — William R. Cobb

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough — Randall Cobb

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

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky. — Jerrie Cobb

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

I'm sure your feelings do you credit, John, but by Jove, you can't marry a female in a fit of philantropy! — Sheri Cobb South

Don't come home a failure. — Ty Cobb

Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips. — Irvin S. Cobb

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

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. — Irvin S. Cobb

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. — Ty Cobb

Even before we ... had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes. — Jerrie Cobb

The crowd makes the ballgame. — 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 best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do. — Ty Cobb

(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ... — Casey Stengel

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'! — Irvin S. Cobb

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

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. — Irvin S. Cobb

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it. — Lee J. Cobb

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial. — Irvin S. 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

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. — Irvin S. Cobb

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle. — Randall Cobb

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

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today. — Ty Cobb

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. — Ty Cobb

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality. — John B. Cobb

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb

Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in. — Rachelle Rea Cobb

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Howell Cobb

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. — Irvin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed — Irvin S. Cobb

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. — Irvin S. Cobb

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

You cant change the world, Just the role you play in it — Cody Cobb

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb

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

Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes. — Al Stump

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. — Tris Speaker

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying. — Lee J. Cobb

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. — Irvin S. Cobb

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

To wheel about in one's chair to address the footman would be completely outside the pale. — Sheri Cobb South

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do — Randall Cobb

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

Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance? — Sheri Cobb South

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

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

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. — Irvin S. Cobb

That boy Mantle is a good one. — Ty Cobb

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed. — Ty Cobb

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day. — Branch Rickey

Most collisions out on the fields are needless. — Ty Cobb

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on. — Randall "Tex" Cobb

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face. — Randall Cobb

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression. — Casey Stengel

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now. — Jerrie Cobb

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. — Martha Ackmann

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him. — Irvin S. Cobb

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing. — Casey Stengel

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass. — Randall "Tex" Cobb

The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever. — George Sisler

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit. — Babe Ruth

The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow. — Lee J. Cobb

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

Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather. — Humphrey Cobb

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer. — Abbie Cobb

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time. — Gerry Cooney

I've got to be first. ALL the time. — Ty Cobb

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat. — Pete Rose

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time. — Randall Cobb

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

I don't think his hands could take the abuse. — Randall Cobb

I'm not out of touch with reality;
I've just got my eyes on eternity. — Daniel M. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. — Irvin S. Cobb

There are always exceptions to every generalization.
[A Christian Epilogue] — John B. Cobb Jr.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb

It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had. — Abbie Cobb