Quotes About Toughness

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

I'm a rough guy and I like it when fights get tough.

Physically, I'm strong, I'm fast, I'm tough, I'm rough.

Rugby and wrestling are sports for real athletes.

I'm quite a ruthless, cold-hearted bastard. I always have been.

I mean, sometimes if you're not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you're there physically.

If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

Look at the old Packers - those guys were mean. Reggie White would say, 'Here comes Jesus,' and then he'd club you into next week.

The nature of the game is pain.

I can take more pain than anyone.

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

Everybody sees it and thinks it's so exciting. They don't realize it's a professional sport. Everyone wants to be an ultimate fighter until they get hit.

Look, I am not really that sensitive of a guy. I don't get hurt by a lot of things.

Back when I got in the league, it wasn't a sexy game. It was more of a 'beat you down' game - you know, make sure you were strong.

I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.

I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations.

I've been beat up pretty badly back in my day.

I really want to test my athletic ability, my toughness, and my skills against those guys who are in my ballpark size-wise.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.