Famous Quotes / Ty Cobb
13 Quotations by Ty Cobb
- 1. A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
- 2. Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better s ...
- 3. Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitc ...
- 4. He runs pretty good for a fat man.
- 5. I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters ar ...
- 6. I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
- 7. I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
- 8. Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big diffe ...
- 9. The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag ful ...
- 10. The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and ...
- 11. When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
- 12. When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
- 13. When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay ...