“Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.”

“I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.”

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”

“There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.”

“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”