Ty Cobb Quotes

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

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

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

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

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 would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

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

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

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

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

Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.

The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

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

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.

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

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

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

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

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.

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.