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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
Narrows
Georgia
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Tyrus Raymond Ty Cobb
The Georgia Peach
Leadership
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I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
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That boy Mantle is a good one.
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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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I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
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Don't come home a failure.
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Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?
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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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To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
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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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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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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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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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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
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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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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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