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Ty Cobb

"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."

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"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."

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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."

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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

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"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

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"The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault."
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"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field."
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"The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves."
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"I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."
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