"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance."

"How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer."

"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day."

"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil."

"I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do."

"The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race."

"Luck is the residue of design."

"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late."

"Never surrender opportunity for security."

"Problems are the price you pay for progress."

"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."

"If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit."

"A full mind is an empty bat."

"Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil."

"The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball."

"All I had was natural ability."

"It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."