When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
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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.Ty Cobb
I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
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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.
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Don't come home a failure.
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I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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