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Quotes About Toughness

You'll need to take it easy on him, Tyler. He comes off tough as nails, but if you find the way in, he can be hurt. We all can, love. We all can.
~ Joey W. Hill
"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
~ Mario Puzo, Fools Die
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
O for the night that was ending, for the sleep and the wakefulness, the toughness and tenderness mixed, the sweet temper, the safety in darkness. Would such a night ever return?
~ E M Forster
I've never been much for tears, anyway.
~ Ed Brubaker
Stu was six feet four inches of pure badass. He was a great guy to have around when you needed to run through a wall or knock down a tree.
~ Ed Kugler
I loved the guy. He was five feet seven inches tall, meaner than a bear with a sore ass, shaved his head bald, and talked like he had a mouth full of gravel. He was one badass Marine. He weighed in about 210 and wanted no shit from no one.
~ Ed Kugler
With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.
~ Edmund Hillary
Stronger than dirt.
~ Anonymous
I think my mental toughness, athleticism, and my physical prowess, I'd be successful if I decided to fight, no matter what.
~ Jordan Burroughs
I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
I have the Puerto Rico power and the Philadelphia toughness and Philadelphia skills.
~ Danny Garcia
The thing everybody thinks of when they think about Russia is how tough the people are. When they see a fighter continuously pulling out, that's something that they really don't like. Then they look at a guy like Conor who always shows up and does what he says he's going to do. That really resonates with the Russian public.
~ Artem Lobov
You have to be able to take a punch. A strong neck is really important.
~ Wanderlei Silva
Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
~ Canelo Alvarez
I always give Calzaghe credit. He was a great fighter, really tough, unbeaten in 46 fights. He's never, ever given me any props at all. And for that I'd love to punch him in the face really hard.
~ Carl Froch
I can take a punch.
~ Artem Lobov
Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.
~ Peter Berg
It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.
~ Thomas Hauser
I've gotten punched in the face before by Cena. His hands are like rocks.
~ Sheamus
Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.
~ Lane Kiffin
During the fight, if you feel something, you know it's pretty bad, because normally you don't feel anything. You get punched and elbowed in the face, you don't feel it until after the fight.
~ Stephen Thompson
I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.
~ Jake LaMotta
The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
~ Larry Holmes