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Ty Cobb [1886-1961] American

Rank: 101
Athlete, Baseball player

Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb, nicknamed "The Georgia Peach", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia.

Sports, War, Business, Failure, Medical, Money

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Business	101
To get along with me, don't increase my tension.		102
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.		103
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.	Sports	104
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.	War	105
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.	Money	106
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.		107
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.	Sports	108
Don't come home a failure.	Failure	109
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.		110
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.		111
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.	War	112
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.		113
The crowd makes the ballgame.	Sports	114
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.		115
I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.	Medical	116
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.		117

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