"I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends."
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Statement made in 1961, as quoted in Voices from Cooperstown: Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was (1998) by Anthony J. Connor, p. 286
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Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (18 December 1886 β 17 July 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American baseball player, often considered among the greatest players in the history of the sport.
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