Quotes

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.

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.

The crowd makes the ballgame.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Baseball is a sport. It's never been a business.

Someone will hit .400 again. Somebody will get smart and swing naturally.

His approach to the game: "Not unlike a war. If we can not only beat them but run wild on them in addition, treat them like a bunch of bush leaguers, it is liable to put them up in the air for a week."

Most of all I was saddling that team with a psychological burden so that they would be muttering, 'Cobb is crazy. He'll run anytime and in any situation.' It would help give them the jitters and they'd concentrate so much on me they were not paying any attention to the business at hand. My failures rarely were complete failures. They were more like future investments.

A baseball bat is a wondrous weapon.

When asked why he'd only hit .300 against pitchers in 1959: "You've got to remember, I'm seventy-three now."

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.