Top 100 Cobb Quotes
#1. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#2. Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
Al Stump
#3. Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.
John McGraw
#4. ARTHUR: What happened?
ARIADNE: Cobb stayed.
ARTHUR: With Mal?
ARIADNE: No. To find Saito.
Arthur looks out at the water below the bridge.
ARTHUR: He'll be lost...
ARIADNE: No. He'll be alright.
Christopher J. Nolan
#5. I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.
Jonathan Weeks
#6. At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
Harmon Killebrew
#7. On his next return to this world, Duncan Cobb, oldest son, faithless cousin, cautious lover, and pal of killers, awoke infused with the lucidity born of no escape, and a mortal dose of honesty.
Daniel Woodrell
#8. I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
Pete Rose
#9. The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy
Tobin T. Buhk
#10. COBB: You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter...
Mal looks at his across the railroad tracks. Replies-
MAL: Because you'll always be together.
Christopher J. Nolan
#11. Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.
Martha Ackmann
#12. Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Babe Ruth
#13. I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.
That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.
Rudy Rucker
#14. I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
Casey Stengel
#15. (Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ...
Casey Stengel
#16. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.
Jimmy Cannon
#17. It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
Al Kaline
#18. Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.
Jane Leavy
#19. The greatness of Ty Cobb was something that had to be seen, and to see him was to remember him forever.
George Sisler
#20. EAMES: Try this... "MY FATHER ACCEPTS THAT I WANT TO CREATE FOR MYSELF, NOT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS."
COBB: That might work.
ARTHUR: Might? We'll have to do better than that.
EAMES: Thanks for the contribution, Arthur.
ARTHUR: Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames.
Christopher J. Nolan
#21. Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
Branch Rickey
#22. In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.
Roy Clark
#23. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, and Jimmy Cobb playing "All Blues," a moody, blues form piece in 6/8, off the 1959 album Kind of Blue.
Blake Crouch
#24. I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
Casey Stengel
#25. I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
Gerry Cooney
#26. The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
Tris Speaker
#27. When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
Pete Rose
#28. The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
Ty Cobb
#29. Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.
Ty Cobb
#30. Even though there is so much to be unhappy about in this world, we should try to create something amazing and beautiful and interesting despite all of the problems.
Chris Cobb
#31. If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.
Howell Cobb
#32. King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#33. The crowd makes the ballgame.
Ty Cobb
#34. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.
Irvin S. Cobb
#35. I'm sure your feelings do you credit, John, but by Jove, you can't marry a female in a fit of philantropy!
Sheri Cobb South
#36. Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.
Ty Cobb
#37. No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
Ty Cobb
#38. I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
Ty Cobb
#39. The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
Lee J. Cobb
#40. I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
Abbie Cobb
#41. The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
Ty Cobb
#42. When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
Ty Cobb
#43. I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
Ty Cobb
#44. I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.
Randall Cobb
#45. If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
Lee J. Cobb
#46. 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
#47. You cant change the world, Just the role you play in it
Cody Cobb
#48. Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.
Irvin S. Cobb
#49. To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
Irvin S. Cobb
#50. 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.
Ty Cobb
#51. If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
Irvin S. Cobb
#52. To wheel about in one's chair to address the footman would be completely outside the pale.
Sheri Cobb South
#54. You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough
Randall Cobb
#55. When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.
Ty Cobb
#56. It is a longstanding South-
ern tradition to call someone a "storyteller" as a polite
way of calling him a liar.
William R. Cobb
#57. Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
Ty Cobb
#58. I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.
Ty Cobb
#59. 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.
Ty Cobb
#60. Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
Irvin S. Cobb
#61. There are people out there who've paid good money to hear me. I always figure when all you got is the deposit slip, you better be real nice to the folks that have the checkbook.
Thomas Cobb
#62. Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance?
Sheri Cobb South
#63. It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
Abbie Cobb
#64. If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#65. Too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can be expressed only by a sullen silence.
Humphrey Cobb
#66. The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#67. I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.
Jerrie Cobb
#68. I don't think his hands could take the abuse.
Randall Cobb
#69. The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
Ty Cobb
#70. This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.
Frank I. Cobb
#71. Even before we ... had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.
Jerrie Cobb
#72. I'm not out of touch with reality;
I've just got my eyes on eternity.
Daniel M. Cobb
#73. As noted in 1964 by Robert P. "Bob" Moses, director of the Mississippi project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): "It's not contradictory for a farmer to say he's nonviolent and also pledge to shoot a marauder's head off.
Charles E. Cobb
#74. Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.
Stanwood Cobb
#75. Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
Irvin S. Cobb
#76. Most collisions out on the fields are needless.
Ty Cobb
#77. There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.
John B. Cobb
#78. I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
Ty Cobb
#79. The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority ... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.
Frank I. Cobb
#80. Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to use weapons to defend the nonviolent Freedom Movement.
Charles E. Cobb
#81. SHINE JESUS - I have found, the more we point others to Jesus ... the more His radiance shines through us. "Those who are wise will shine like the brightest of heavens, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like stars forever and ever." Daniel 12:3
Paul Cobb
#82. As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb
#83. The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.
John B. Cobb
#84. When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.
Lee J. Cobb
#85. Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Ty Cobb
#86. Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.
Humphrey Cobb
#87. 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.
Ty Cobb
#88. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#89. When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Ty Cobb
#90. Experience taught then and teaches now that blacks should never underestimate the level of violence that could be brought to bear against them by white authority, and that they should never overestimate the prospects for receiving understanding and support from white people.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#91. Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Take it!" he snarled, hurling the diamond necklace across the table at his opponent. "And may you rot in hell with it!"
"I should not dream of intruding upon you there," replied Mr Brundy, bowing deeply from the waist.
Sheri Cobb South
#95. Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom & the first cracker even looks like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won't write his mama again.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#96. All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do
Randall Cobb
#97. You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
Irvin S. Cobb
#98. Julia could form no opinion of Robert, the bespectacled middle child, for he passed the entire journey with his nose stuck in a book, returning only monosyllabic answers to any questions put to him
Sheri Cobb South
#99. Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
Irvin S. Cobb
#100. A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb
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