(11 quotes found)
“The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.”
Tris Speaker
“Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.”
Branch Rickey
“Cobb was similar to Wade Boggs. He was a big guy who could hit for power, but chose not to.”
Dan Holmes
“That created a whole landslide of Cobb-hating and piling on. That was the last 10 months of Cobb's life. I think if any of us were portrayed in the last 10 months of life, when we were ravaged by disease, we would not come across very well.”
“We felt like they hadn't seen the real North Cobb team. We played as bad as we could in that first game and felt like we could play up to our capabilities tonight. I didn't think we'd shoot like that, though.”
Walter Jordan
“Cobb had a good game and Miles, for his inexperience, placed the ball well. Once he gained his composure, he gave us a good inning.”
Trevor Clark
“Cobb Creek is the first step in an aggressive drilling program Sovereign has planned for 2006. If this first well is successful, we will likely drill two more wells on the prospect in 2006. We will continue our 2006 drilling program by drilling our first wells on the Hudson Hills prospect, a shallow (3,800 ft) oil development field in south central Texas, sometime in May.”
Steve Saxon
“I know baseball has to have heroes and villains, and Cobb fits the role of villain perfectly. But the worst about Cobb is taken unquestionably. Here you have arguably the greatest player in the game's history, and he's become a cartoon. The feeling is you can do whatever you want with him, no matter how over the top it is.”
“That was a very frustrating moment. Unfortunately, the official didn't hear me and I didn't want Cobb taking it, but she did have a decent look.”
Rhonda Rompola
“The thing that bothers me in this whole scenario is that it has set one part of west Cobb against another, and that's a shame.”
Lindsey Tippins
