“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.”
"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."
- Ty Cobb
Belief in Self
"When I played ball, I didnt 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
Ambition
"I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery."
- Ty Cobb
Insight
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage