Quotes About Toughness

I don't know if I would be a good cop. As gruff as I come off, I take things very emotionally.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

Too many cry babies in this game.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I don't cry easily.

I don't cry about anything.

There's no crying in basketball.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.

If your ankle is damaged and you get another heavy tackle on it the pain is always with you.

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

McGregor talks a lot, but he's also really tough and deserves our respect.

How did things go?" "On a scale of one to ten, about a negative nine.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.