Tough Quotes

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives.

A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

Something as unique as 'Scrubs' is a tough act to follow. It's hard to find something that good that you want to really make a commitment to.

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Practices were tough.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.

I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.

Life is supposed to get tough.

When I became mayor, the city was in tough financial straits.

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.

Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.

It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.

I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.

Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.

It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.