Ty Cobb Quotes

This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.

I've always been a physical player.

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.

I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

I grew up playing in lots of physical battles against lots of players. It's something I enjoy. I'm a big lad myself, so I feel I can handle myself in a battle.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

The weakest goes to the wall.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

I'm a rah, rah guy's guy. I like to talk about sports and put people in headlocks.

I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.