Ty Cobb Quotes

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how fast it comes.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing.

I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Baseball is a team game.

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.