Quotes About Tough

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

Alan Shearer was tough, would be hard to play against, a difficult opponent.

Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions.

It's part of, I guess, one of the harder parts about coaching is you have to make some tough decisions.

Tough decisions are never popular to make and even less popular to force upon the U.N.

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Growing up in New Jersey, everyone wanted to be a tough guy. That meant baggy pants that fell down, big T- shirts, and chains. I couldn't imagine wearing tight jeans, as I thought it was dorky. Now I look at pictures of me then and think, 'Yeah, you looked dorky.'

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

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.

I ended up moving up to lightweight, which I didn't want, and fought a really tough guy, Will Brooks, and beat him like nothing.

Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.

You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

I may seem a tough guy, but I'm also very sentimental.

I'm a tough guy. I'm ready to battle with anybody.

What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'