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| Ty Cobb
“’Many players are thrown out by a split second. When you hit the ball, run it out with all the speed you have, no matter where or how you hit it,' Cobb advised young players. `This, I claim, will earn you many hits during the season that you would not get otherwise.' ""A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.'"Baseball was one hundred per cent of my life.""Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.""Golf is older than baseball and changes have made it a better game. The same is true of football, basketball and other sports. Why should baseball be sacred and untouchable?""I am now 68 years old. I still resent the charge of brutal and intentional spiking. This incident, remember, happened in 1909. This is 1955, and to this day, in meeting some young boy interested in baseball and whose father I might have met, I have been told: `Oh, you're the man who spiked Baker."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.""I have often wished that when I was at the peak of my playing skill in my late twenties or early thirties, I had had another crack at a World Series. I'm sure I would have done better. But that chance never came to me.""I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.""I never have slept under the same roof with a nigger, and I'm not going to start here in my own native state of Georgia.""I only recall intentionally spiking one man in twenty-four years. He was Frank Baker, who was squarely in the path in a Philadelphia game ... There was no other way to reach the base. From the start, I concentrated on a new form of sliding. This was to send my toe for the bag. I only gave them my toe to tag! It was exactly the opposite of crashing in, hurling spikes or body at the baseman. I don't know how many hours I worked on my type of sliding-a slide that avoided the tagger. Why, I couldn't have been a rough base runner under my system even if I'd wanted to.""I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.""I think if I had my life to live over again, I would 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, and wanted to be first in everything.""I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.""Somebody will hit .400 again. Somebody will get smart and swing naturally.""Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness-and there's a big difference.""The criticism was printed, and someone sent a clipping to Williams. Ted burned. It was pride, and not stupidity, that had urged him to keep swinging naturally into the massed defense in right field. Cobb's remarks, however, may have influenced Ted to swallow his pride and start hitting to left, with successful results.""The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.""The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money that's in it-not for the love of it, the excitement of it and the thrill of it.""The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance, all these are elemental. Batting rather is a study in psychology, a sizing up of pitcher and catcher, and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.""When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.""When I came up to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.""You still can run and you still can hit. Drink a little wine before dinner and you'll play for years.""You've got to remember-I'm 73."-What he said to a young pitcher named Carl Hubbell when he was managing the Tigers.A ball bat is a wondrous weapon. Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. Learn the fundamentals.
Study and work at the game as if it were a science.
Keep in top physical condition.
Make yourself as effective as possible.
Get the desire to win.
Keeping in the best physical condition and having an intense spirit to succeed is the combination for winning games.Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.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. When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy. 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. |
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