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Ty Cobb Quotes about Baseball

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Motivational, Baseball, Money

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

Baseball, Player, Important

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

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.

Baseball, Hurt, Business

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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.

Baseball, Men, Average

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

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

Baseball, Size, Johnson

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

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Baseball, War, Mlb

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Baseball, Hundred, Percent

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

That boy Mantle is a good one.

Baseball, Boys

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

Baseball, Fun, Play

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

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