Quotes About Toughness

Leadership requires insensitivity.

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

I'm a pretty big fella and I can handle myself.

Over time, your face hardens up and you just look more like a fighter.

You need to be a complete fighter - the heart, the chin, the toughness. You've got to have it all.

You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that's fine... fighters do that.

I've been in so many street fights.

In my fights, it's not if I get hit; it's when I get hit.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

'Toughness' and 'credibility' are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kissingerian deal-making. Both men insist that war and diplomacy are inseparable and that, to be effective, diplomats need to be able to wield threats and offer incentives in equal, unrestricted measure.

If I get hit, I know the pain is going to be temporary. I'm going to hurt for a second and that might be one of those times I run off the field. But then it'll ease up and I'll go back in.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

I might read books and paint pictures but I'm not soft

He has dark eyes, thick eyebrows, and battered features. His nose has definitely been broken, probably a couple of times, and he's missing a piece of his ear, as if someone took a bite out of it. There's a story there, no doubt. I like that about his face. That it's a road map of been there, done that. It's interesting.

Where I train we smack our palms and knuckles against cinderblocks. This action creates tiny fissures in the bones. When those fissures heal, the bone is stronger. I can put the blade of my palm through a two-by-four.

MAMA Well, little boys' hides ain't as tough as Southside roaches. You better get over there behind the bureau. I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday.