Tough Quotes

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

I think I'm a really tough player.

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

We're obviously having a tough time, like the other teams did.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

Living ain't easy, loving's twice as tough.

The only difference between the easy goals and the tough goals is your determination.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

Russia has got to be the team to beat, in my opinion. When they are playing together as a team, they are tough to beat.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.