Tough Quotes

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

I don't think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won't coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.

You know, as a woman, it is tough to get to the top - like to get to that respected level in this industry - in any industry, I think.

I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

I didn't deserve to be president just based on the Richter scale of 'Was I tough enough and did I understand the process?'

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

Being injured sucks. When you see all your buddies out there playing it's tough.

It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

To me coming up short as a team and for me not having a great particular game was tough to swallow, but your life doesn't end there. You must put your life into perspective and keep moving on.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.