“Cobb” quotes
(1994)
Title Cobb
Year 1994
Director Ron Shelton
Genre Drama, Sport, Biography
Year 1994
Director Ron Shelton
Genre Drama, Sport, Biography
Plot – Tyrus Cobb was a baseball star and he wants Al Stump to write his biography. The writer reaches him in Nevada, noticing Cobb's bad character, his anger, his vainglory and his racism. Stump feels attracted by the man anyway.
All actors – Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Ned Bellamy, Scott Burkholder, Allan Malamud, Bill Caplan, Jeff Fellenzer, Doug Krikorian, Gavin Smith, Lou Myers, William Utay
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“I gave a few bucks to a local kid to repaint the sign, and disappear for awhile to finish the manuscripts, and wait for Cobb to die. While I waited: Ernest Hemingway blew his brains out, Getty bought Honolulu Oil, Coke came out in cans, and the brunette in the courtyard ran away with a handsome young lawyer, and on July 17, 1961, Ty Cobb died...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I started playing baseball when I was a kid, like everybody else but better than everybody else.”
“- Al Stump: Come on, Ty, aren't you going to give Ruth credit for anything?
- Ty Cobb: He could run okay for a fat man.”"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!
“- Louis Prima: Tell us all, we'd all like to know, why do you think you'd only hit .290?
- Ty Cobb: Well, I'm 72 fucking years old you ignorant son of a bitch.”“- Al Stump: I put up with your bullshit. I give words, I interpret, I give life to your bullshit. And you give me nothing. Nothing! But grief.
- Ty Cobb: You have never been this close to greatness in your short life son. And you love it.”“Baseball was one-hundred-percent of my life.”
“- Ramona: That don't scare me, 'cause if you shoot me, I'll be dead. And you're not gonna screw a dead lady!
- Ty Cobb: I might like it.”“- Ty Cobb: 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.
- Ramona: I don't think so.”“Greatness is overrated.”
“The desire for glory is not a sin.”
“The South may not rise again young man, but my dick will.”
“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.”
“We call ourselves writers! All we do is sit around talking about baseball and getting drunk a lot. You call that writing?”
“- Al Stump: I gotta put your family in my book.
- Ty Cobb: Your book? My book! And nothing about my ex-wives or my children is going to be in it. My book is about baseball!
- Al Stump: My book is about Cobb.
- Ty Cobb: Cobb is Baseball!”“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?”
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