Cobb Monologues

A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.

I am the Georgia Peach. I have 4,191 base hits in 11,429 at bats, 920 stolen bases, 2,244 runs scored, and 93 batting records; and I want you to take off every stitch of your clothes.

The desire for glory is not a sin.

Baseball is a red blooded sport for red blooded men. It's no pink tea, and molly-coddles had better stay out... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Know ye that a prince and a great man has fallen this day.

Shit! Will you stop explaining yourself, and stand by your damn convictions? You beat the great Ty Cobb - I respect that, but if you're gonna print it, print it all. My second son weighed 300 pounds. Died in the arms of a whore in Paso Robles, California. My other son, lost all track of him. My two ex-wives won't speak to me, and my daughter, you know goddamn well won't speak to me, and Ty Cobb can't get it up anymore. Print it all!

I want everything back I took out of Bethlehem Steel, and I want it all now.

It is not confusing. It's simple - you won. You go ahead and tell the whole wide world that the greatest ballplayer who ever lived is also the greatest bastard. Eureka! Who fucking cares?

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.

'Cobb, a prince among men, misunderstood in his genius, as genius always is'...

This is the second line from what will be the greatest biography of a great man ever written - type it!

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon, but you should never grip it at the end if you want balance and control. Learn the fundamentals. The game is a science. Batting is a mental activity, a study in psychology, an observation of little details. Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. The batter owns the plate. The pitcher must come to you. If John McGraw were a young man, I would've killed him. I regret I didn't go to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

The South may not rise again young man, but my dick will.

You have never been this close to greatness in your short life son. And you love it.

I started playing baseball when I was a kid like everybody else but better than everybody else.