Top 1200 Tough Quotes & Sayings

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.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.

Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without tough love. If you want to keep civilization, you better start by insisting that boys grow up, instead of trying to infantilize them so they're afraid to stop sucking their thumbs.

I'm a tough, tough person. I always have been tough to embarrass, too.

I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

I was a hard-times governor. I had to steer my state through the deepest recession since the 1930s. But hey, tough times don't last and tough people do. And can I tell you that Virginians are tough people? We are tough people.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Westminster is no joke. I took some tough classes there. It prepared me for a tough career.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

It's a tough job to be the owner in a rebuild, to be the GM, to be the coach. These are tough jobs.

You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

I want the Iraqis to understand that we are with them and that they have to make tough decisions, and we'll help them make those tough decisions for this country, for this democracy to survive. And they've made some tough decisions.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

I have to be honest about this: I wouldn't tell a lot of kids to go and be writers. It's a tough, tough business. It's not a business. It's more like a tough road. It's a really tough road.

Don't play tennis. Do something you love and enjoy because it's a grind and it's a tough, tough, tough life. My position, I'm trapped. I have to do it.

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

I try to take it and leave it in God's hands. I try to do what He wants me to do and come out here and perform the best I can for my teammates. That's my responsibility. This is a tough league. Outside of basketball, the lifestyle is tough - the travel. Honestly, I think that responsibility is pretty tough but I don't believe that God gives us anything we can't handle.

I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

On 'Tough Enough' you're in a house with your competitors, living, eating and breathing with them. That's really tough.

Ben Askren, he's a tough boy. Golly, he's a tough boy. That's what wrestling does. When you wrestle your whole life, you got to be a tough dude to wrestle.

Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.

Will Brooks is a very tough guy. He's an ex-champ and beat very tough guys. The same way I fought very tough guys.

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

A lot of tough players come out of Jersey. Tough-minded kids. That's what I was.

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

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.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

Retiring was very tough, it's tough at the best of times. Nothing can prepare you for it.

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

Sometimes you need to have a tough conversation or face a tough situation, and take it head on.

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.

You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pay your house payment. That's a tough crowd.

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

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.

Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.

I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.

It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.