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.
From Ty Cobb
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
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.
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
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.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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.
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