Ty Cobb Quotes

United States, Baseball Player
December 18, 1886 – July, 17, 1961.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia.

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.

Ty Cobb
- War
- Fighting
- Player
I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd 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, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.

Ty Cobb
- Life
- Believe
- Different

Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of .367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted would have broken every record in the book.

Ty Cobb
- Book
- Broken
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Ty Cobb
I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

Ty Cobb
- Proud
Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.

Ty Cobb
- Life
- World
- Long