Author: Ty Cobb

Quotes

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

- Ty Cobb

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

- Ty Cobb

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

- Ty Cobb

The crowd makes the ballgame.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

- Ty Cobb

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

- Ty Cobb

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

- 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 love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

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

Don't come home a failure.

Don't come home a failure.

- Ty Cobb

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 of the fittest.

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 of the fittest.

- Ty Cobb

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