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Ty Cobb

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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.


— Ty Cobb


#bastards #beat #ditch #fight #had

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.


— Ty Cobb


#get #increase #me #tension

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.


— Ty Cobb


#could #fire #had #i #interest

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.


— Ty Cobb


#baseball #batters #come #down #heavy

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.


— Ty Cobb


#better #fittest #had #men #out

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.


— Ty Cobb


#life #my life #one-hundred #percent

Don't come home a failure.


— Ty Cobb


#failure #home

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.


— Ty Cobb


#batter #every #great #him #more

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.


— Ty Cobb


#fierce #i #low #may #never

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.


— Ty Cobb


#been #college #day #doctor #feel






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The elder Cobb subsequently traveled to the Princeton campus and beat his son with a whip to ensure against future academic failure. Reputed violence and racism
As the Smithsonian Magazine has stated "Violent confrontations were a recurring theme in Cobb’s life" while "stories of Cobb’s racial intolerance were well-documented. Ty Cobb's legacy also includes legions of collectors of his early tobacco card issues as well as game used memorabilia and autographs.

Cobb's legacy as an athlete has sometimes been overshadowed by his surly temperament and aggressive playing style which was described by the Detroit Free Press as "daring to the point of dementia. He was born in The Narrows Georgia a small rural community of farmers that was not an official city or village at the time. He still holds several records as of 2013 including the highest career batting average (.

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