I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

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"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."

- Ty Cobb

Courage

"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

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