Quotes About Toughness

I didn't try to be a tough guy. I didn't try to be a big mobster. I was who I was. I didn't stop doing what I normally did. I worked out. I lifted weights. I ran. That's what I usually did.

There's something weird about me the way even the biggest punches to the jaw don't wobble me, but if you can avoid being hit too often, so much the better.

Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.

I think there's a discipline, a toughness, a respect for the game that I learned in New England that I think is just basic, the way football's supposed to be taught and practiced and preached.

The Premier League is very strong, physical football, and I am not a strong player.

A lot of people don't realise how mentally tough the Premier League is.

Premier League players are a lot cleverer, but they don't like being roughed up. They're not used to that.

The Premier League is the top league in the world. It's definitely toughened me up and mentally made me into the person I am now.

Pep and Jurgen tell me that the Premier League is crazy, a hard one.

I am never going to be much of a physical presence. For me, it's more about taking my strength and finding a way to use it as an advantage.

When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

Kids are pretty brutal.

I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.

If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

Defense is about will and effort and a certain toughness you have to have.

That's the attitude you have to have on defense. You have to want to hit. You have to want to be physical.

In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.

I'm not a delicate man.

A lot of guys around the league might say I need a dentist.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

In England, every game is like a derby, because it's physical.

You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.

Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.