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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

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Ty Cobb
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: July 17
Baseball Player
Narrows
Georgia
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Tyrus Raymond Ty Cobb
The Georgia Peach
Baseball
Hundred
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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.
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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
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No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
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Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
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Speed is a great asset but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
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Don't come home a failure.
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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
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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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The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
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I've got to be first. ALL the time.
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I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
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