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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

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Ty Cobb
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: July 17
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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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.
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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