Quotes About Toughness

I don't feel pain. I ain't got time for that. I let other people feel pain for me.

We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

I have seen my share of cruelty, injustice, and grief. I do not need to be treated like some flower that will bruise if you touch it.

And Deryn didn't mind the constant practice in useful skills like knife throwing, swearing, and not showing pain when punched. But how did boys keep this up their whole barking lives?

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

Dead or alive, the balls still hurt when kicked, huh? (Zarek)

Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It'll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

I'm not afraid of them. Hits, I can take. After all, I was slapped on the ass the minute I was born, and not a damn thing has changed since.

You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of a mountain. (Kasen)

Yeah, I'm insensitive. So is life. DEAL with it.

But life's never easy when you need it to be.

A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

My leg hurts," the soldier whined. "Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?

My leg hurts," the soldier whined. "Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?

I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair

Hard things are hard.

If she'd meant to shame him, it seemed to roll off like water from slate.

His bones ached of a morning, winter and summer, these days; it was only a matter of degree.

Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery.

Killing me still on the agenda, tough girl?" I walked over to the desk. "Yup, right here next to buy Brendan a leash." "Glad to know you have a sense of humour." "I wasn't joking." I mumbled, knowing he would be able to hear me.

Please do not misunderstand me," he once told Wilson. "We too came into the world with the noble instincts and the lofty aspirations which you express so often and so eloquently. We have become what we are because we have been shaped by the rough hand of the world in which we have to live and we have survived only because we are a tough bunch.

Bavaro's probably as tough of a - physically and mentally as tough a football player as I've ever coached. So, I would put him in the rare category there.