KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Ty Cobb Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Ty Cobb

Showing 1-10 of 17 Quotes by 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.

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Ty Cobb

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: December 18th, 1886

Died: July 17th, 1961

Links

Find Ty Cobb on Amazon

Related Authors

Muhammad Ali
Lance Armstrong
Yogi Berra
Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan
Satchel Paige
Steve Prefontaine
Mike Tyson

Popular Authors

Kate Adie Marcus Aurelius W. E. B. Du Bois Warren Buffett Bo Burnham Paulo Coelho Colin Kaepernick Voltaire

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1779 - Clement Clarke Moore

1796 - Thomas Bulfinch

1848 - Vilfredo Pareto

1864 - Franklin Knight Lane

1865 - Lord Northcliffe

1892 - Walter Benjamin

1904 - Rudolf Arnheim

1905 - Dorothy Fields

1917 - Robert Conquest

1919 - Iris Murdoch

Birthdays on July 15th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Birthday Courage Legal Poetry Religion Science Work