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Ty Cobb
12 quotes
“I feel that anything I could say in the way of eulogizing Hans would not be one-hundredth as much as he deserves, so I will just say my heart is with him tonight in wishing him three or four more score of pleasant years and that he will lead them all just as long as he wishes. I will be drinking a toast to the greatest ball player ever on his forty-first birthday, the night of February 24, away down here in Georgia.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On , from a letter written in February 1915, expressing regret at being unable to attend a banquet honoring Wagner; as quoted in "Wagner Greatest of All Diamond Stars, Says Cobb," The Pittsburgh Gazette Times (February …
“Why not? Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man. In my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to the impending integration of the , as quoted in "Between the Lines" by Dean Gordon Hancock (ANP), in The Atlanta Daily World (February 10, 1952); reproduced in "The Knife in Ty Cobb’s Back" (30 August 2011…
“Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of .367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted would have broken every record in the book.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Ted Williams, as quoted in "Here's the Pitch" by Frank Finch, in The Los Angeles Times (June 5, 1958), p. C2
“I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement made in 1961, as quoted in Voices from Cooperstown: Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was (1998) by Anthony J. Connor, p. 286
“Joe's swing was purely natural, he was the perfect hitter. He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. … he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (2008) by Harvey Frommer, p. 72
“I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the diamond, I had been rough on Babe. I'd never taken my spurs out of his hide and one day he'd come looking for me in the Detroit clubhouse with fistic mayhem in mind. We'd won and lost duels to each other way back since 1915, when Babe had been a rookie pitcher with Bill Carrigan's Boston Red Sox. To add heat to the situation, some press association or other was always holding a poll to pick between Ruth and Cobb as the all-time star player.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he changed baseball — from a game of science to an extension of his powerful slugging — but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. No one ever loved life more. No one ever inspired more youngsters. I have reverence for his marvelous ability . I look forward to meeting him again some day.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most collisions out on the fields are needless. Keep your ears open while you're concentrating on running toward the ball and stick to the tested formula, boys. When you shout "I'll take it!" or "I've got it!" shout it loudly and clearly. Give that signal the instant you feel the play belongs to you and not your team-mate. After that, the responsibility for the catch is yours. If you call for it, you have the confidence to play the ball, knowing you are on your own and safe from injury. The collision hazard is eliminated almost entirely.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a base-runner, I had some pretty radical ideas. Some said I was crazy to take such chances; others were beginning to suspect that maybe I had something. My counter to Criger's challenge had to be something unusual. And when we opened the first Boston series of '08, I watched the Young-Criger battery carefully before coming to the plate. Then I told Criger, "I'm going to steal every base on you today." … On four straight Young pitches, beginning with my single, I'd completed a tour of Boston bases. Our man at bat hadn't taken his club off his shoulder while I was coming around. Criger had been deflated in the worst possible way that can happen to a catcher — I'd told him exactly what I intended to do, and still gotten away with it.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. To me it wasn't parchesi played under parchesi rules. Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. 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. 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? Many a writer has said that I was "unfair." Well, that's not my understanding of the word. When my toes were stepped on, I stepped right back.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source