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Ty Cobb Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Don't come home a failure. — Ty Cobb

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

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. — Ty 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That boy Mantle is a good one. — Ty Cobb

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

Most collisions out on the fields are needless. — Ty 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 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