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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

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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
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Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
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Don't come home a failure.
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The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
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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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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 never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
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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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Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
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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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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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