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Ty Cobb Quotes

1886–1961 United States

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (18 December 1886 – 17 July 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American baseball player, often considered among the greatest players in the history of the sport.

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

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

I'm going to steal every base on you today.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

Joe's swing was purely natural, he was the perfect hitter.

After that, the responsibility for the catch is yours.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

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

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different.

Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of .367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted would have broken every record in the book.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he changed baseball — from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging — but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvelous ability . I look forward to meeting him again some day.

My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ty Cobb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.