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13 quotes found searching on Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
I have never slept under the same roof with a nigger, and I'm not going to start here in my own native state of Georgia.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
I had to figure Johnson out. I realized quickly that he wasn't a vicious pitcher, despite all that speed. I saw him wince when he fired one close to somebody's head, and he used to tell me that he was afraid someday that he would kill a man with that fireball. So I used to cheat. I'd crowd that plate so far that I was actually sticking my toes on it when I was facing Johnson. I knew he was timid about hitting a batter, and when he saw me crowding the plate he'd steer his pitches a little bit wide. Then with two balls and no strikes, he'd ease up a bit to get it over. That's the Johnson pitch I hit. I was depending on him to be scared of hitting me.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
A ball bat is a wonderous weapon.
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
You've got to remember - I'm 73.
In 1960
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
On August 2, 1907, I encountered the most threatning sight I ever saw on the ballfield. He was only a rookie, and we licked our lips as we warmed up for the first game of a doubleheader in Washington. Evidently the manager of the Senators had picked a rube out of the cornfields of the deepest bushes to pitch against us.....He was a tall, shambling galoot of about 20 with arms so long they hung out of his sleeves and with a sidearm delivery that looked unimpressive at first glance.....One of us imitated a cow mooing and we hollered at the manager: 'get your pitchfork ready, your hayseed's on his way back to the barn'......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.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
Contributed by: Anthony Sikorski
Walter's idea of a changeup was to just throw harder. It wasn't long after he came to Washington that some of our hitters, arriving in Walter's vicinity, were reporting to the sick list.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
If he'd ever been sawed in half, I think three-fourths of the Yankee Stadium concessions would have been found inside of him.
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
It's a great game, but I feel like a prisoner who's been set free. Baseball to me was more work than play -- in fact it was all work. I was lucky enough to lead the league (in batting) when I was twenty years old, and after that I wanted to lead it every year. I never thought I was any genius, so I gave my life to the game for twenty-five years. It was a constant battle and it wore me out. I must have been in about 30,000 plays and I tried to think about every play and how it should be made. I believed in putting up a mental hazard for the other fellow. Every play was a problem of some sort. That's what I mean by the strain and grind of twenty-five years.
In the early 1930's
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
Can't. I've stolen too many bases. They'd use that against me.
After the 1911 season
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb
Detroit Tigers
OF
HOF 1939
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