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To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
Ty Cobb
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Ty Cobb
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: July 17
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Georgia
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Tyrus Raymond Ty Cobb
The Georgia Peach
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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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The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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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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When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
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Don't come home a failure.
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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 great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
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When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
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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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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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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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