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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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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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Don't come home a failure.
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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
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When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
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The crowd makes the ballgame.
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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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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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I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
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When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
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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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The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
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