Quotes About Tough

Cycling isn't a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn't play at cycling.

Grace was tough and strong—mentally, emotionally and physically—and she cut through a lot of the nonsense. Hollywood was like a game for her. She was also a good businesswoman, and this allowed her to win in her struggles with MGM. She knew how to play the corporate game, and she played it so that it worked for her.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

As Yogi Berra once said: "It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future." The experts in 1880 couldn't imagine a technology, a solution, that

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

When the going gets tough in a negotiation, your biggest challenge will be your ability to nurture your adversary in spite of everything else going on.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us.

I just like the lineage and the heritage and the fact that British dance music is still progressing. I'm from London; I love London, and I wouldn't know how else to show that love in musical terms. There's something about British stuff that's a bit faster, a bit harder-hitting. Just tough.

I wouldn't want to get in the ring with me, I can promise you that.

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that.

I'm a strong fellow.

Mousasi is a very tough fighter.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

The strawweight division may be the lightest division in the UFC, but we are very tough fighters.

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.

Filipino fighters are very tough, they have great heart every time they step into a ring or a cage.

After making the finals of 'Celebrity MasterChef' I know how tough cooking under pressure can be.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

Whoever is in place to step forward and play that striker role has to be ready and be prepared to do the work because it is obviously a very tough job up top on your own. You have to put a shift in.

It is tough when you're by yourself, and I think that's why team sport is so appealing.

A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media.

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.