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

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Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

Ty Cobb

#War Quotes #Games Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.”
“It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.”
“Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.”
“A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.”
“Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.”
“As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.”
“The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.”
“I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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