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I've got to be first. ALL the time.

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Ty Cobb
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: July 17
Baseball Player
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Georgia
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
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The Georgia Peach
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To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
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The crowd makes the ballgame.
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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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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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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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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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When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
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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 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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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
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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 most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
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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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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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Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
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