Quotes About Toughness

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

But I've since learned that for an athlete, the toughness has to come from within—from some sort of hunger, crisis, or need. You can coach nearly any other quality or skill into a runner, but you can't coach that.

the longer I've lived with cancer, the more my definition of toughness has changed. I used to think not crying meant you were tough. Now I think crying means you're tough. It means you're strong enough to be honest and vulnerable. It means you're not pretending. And not pretending, being able to let your guard down and show people how you truly feel and admit that you're a wuss, is one of the toughest things a person can do.

she could squeeze the balls off a buffalo nickel.

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond,

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond, becoming battle hardened.

Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine.

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

Fuckin' Mother Teresa of the MC world, Horse," Ruger chimed in. "Brings a tear to my eye.

Now you're whining because of a broken hand? I thought you were hardcore and shit, but you're just a little girl with a badge.

Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the point of foolishness. I swear, I would cry at a fly caught in a spider's web.' He grimaced at a brutal spasm through his leg as he turned for the door. 'Constant pain has cured me of that.

Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces.

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.

Sweetness is hard. Real sweetness is a sort of hardness—and strength. ~Lois