Quotes About Toughness

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Oh, there's a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I've seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

Physical pain is temporary.

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window.

Tyson replied, "Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth.

he was "tougher than a two-dollar steak.

She looked like she could eat glass shards and shit a stained-glass window. He

you civilized men are soft; your lives are not nailed to your spines as are ours

A weak man's always in a hurry to punish somebody, so he can show how tough he is.

I'm fine, for God's sake,' said Robin, now slightly exasperated. 'If I keeled over every time someone got stabbed in London I'd spend half my life unconscious.

The officer was also proud of the thick skin he developed during his over twenty years in the U.S. Marines and National Guard—an admirable quality in a soldier or police officer, but it proved to be a double-edged sword

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Violent and visceral . . . A cut above . . . Reacher is as tough as he is resourceful. An exciting, edge-of-the-chair account. Compelling and relentlessly suspenseful." —The

him. If your balls were in a vise, better that it wasn't Neagley's hand on the lever. The guy caved and agreed within ten minutes.

three results. The grind of powdered concrete, the screech of bending

delivered hard but with a degree of mercy, in that smashed

But we were hungry. And we had things to do. Roscoe put on the clothes she'd brought from her place in the morning. Jeans, shirt, jacket. Looked wonderful. Very feminine, but very tough. She had a lot of spirit.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.