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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.
Ty Cobb
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Ty Cobb
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: July 17
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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 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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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
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The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
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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 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.
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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
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Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
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The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.
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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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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.
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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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Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
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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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The crowd makes the ballgame.
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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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