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Top 25 Ty Cobb Quotes (2025 Update)

Ty Cobb Quote: “Don’t come home a failure.”

1. “Don’t come home a failure.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.”

2. “The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.”

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Ty Cobb Quote: “The most important part of a player’s body is above his shoulders.”

3. “The most important part of a player’s body is above his shoulders.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun.”

4. “When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun.”

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Ty Cobb Quote: “No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.”

5. “No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can’t understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.”

6. “The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can’t understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference.”

7. “Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.”

8. “Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “To get along with me, don’t increase my tension.”

9. “To get along with me, don’t increase my tension.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “Walter Johnson’s fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.”

11. “Walter Johnson’s fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “I’m coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.”

12. “I’m coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.”

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

Ty Cobb Quote: “I never could stand losing. Second place didn’t interest me. I had a fire in my belly.”

14. “I never could stand losing. Second place didn’t interest me. I had a fire in my belly.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.”

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

Ty Cobb Quote: “A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

16. “A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “That boy Mantle is a good one.”

17. “That boy Mantle is a good one.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”

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

Ty Cobb Quote: “I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.”

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

Ty Cobb Quote: “When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.”

20. “When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “Most collisions out on the fields are needless.”

21. “Most collisions out on the fields are needless.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.”

22. “Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “I’ve got to be first. ALL the time.”

23. “I’ve got to be first. ALL the time.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “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?”

24. “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?”

Ty Cobb Quote: “When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.”

25. “When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “I’ve been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I’m proud of it.”

26. “I’ve been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I’m proud of it.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.”

27. “The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.”

Ty Cobb Quote: “The crowd makes the ballgame.”

28. “The crowd makes the ballgame.”

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