Ty Cobb Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• 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

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

• 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, Pitching

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

• 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

  Motivational, Baseball, Money

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

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Games, Bases

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Hundred, Percent

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

• 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, Mlb

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

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Player, Important

• That boy Mantle is a good one.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Boys

• He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Men, Average

  "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball". Book by Harvey Frommer, p. 72, 2008.

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

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Fun, Play

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

• 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

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”

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