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Baseball Quotes by Ty Cobb
- 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…
- Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
- 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…
- When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
- Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
- The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
- I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
- 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…
- Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
- I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
- Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival…
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