Quotes About Tough

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother. She was tough. She was strong. She was powerful.

I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.

Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.

My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

Any rookie is going to go through a transition process that's going to be tough.

Even now, and you can look at me: Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. —POL POT The eradication of conscience is one of the toughest things you're going to have to learn. Not everyone can do it.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Naomi was a tough kid, so much tougher than Landsman ever needed to be. She was two years younger, close enough for everything Landsman did or said to constitute a mark that must be surpassed or a theory to disprove. She was boyish as a girl and mannish as a woman. When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, "In everything but sexual preference.

elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle.

She looked hard-shell and maybe a little weary for so early in the day, the way lady cops and hookers

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

The notion is tough guys challenge the bench and skill players never do. I'm considered a skilled player, but I don't carry myself like a skilled player.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.