Ty Cobb Quotes

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

I'm the youngest of four boys. My whole life I had to fight. I had to get down and do things in order to secure my spot in the household. So, coming onto the court, it's nothing different.

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

I was one of those guys that really had to fight to make it in this league. Early on, I really had to do whatever it took, whether it be fight, rough people up, to make the team. I looked at it as it's either me or them - and it was going to be me.

I don't pick opponents. I don't care about who I'm going to fight.

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

The nature of the game is pain.

You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

It's really tough in the NBA.

Everyone is out there to beat me, so I go up against every single player to have a battle.

Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.