Explore Quotes by Ty Cobb

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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