Quotes About Toughness

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both. But you have to learn how to get along. I did an awful lot of fighting. I was tough, but I'm also relatively small, so I learned very early on to use my mind.

You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

I've been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.

One thing that's good is I don't lose it if some old mate goes 'bang!' and hits me in the face.

I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

Punters are players, too. They got to learn to take the hits. If they dont want to get hit, they shouldnt be out there.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry.

The ability to deal with pressure is hugely important.

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.

I was just so rambunctious as a little kid. It started because I hung out with my older brothers and their friends. I always had to fight to prove I was tough.

There is no need to ask which is the toughest or most tolerable regime, for it's within each of them that liberating and enslaving forces confront each other. (…) There is no need for fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.

Todos los tipos que había allí tenían el mismo aspecto, como si sus vidas fueran tan duras que habían borrado sus rasgos individuales

Everything just plinked off this woman—bing, bang!—like she was shellacked.

Only the strongest could survive in such a place. This was the bosom of the motherland, a place of ice and of stone. If you possessed the necessary will, you would survive, she would forge you into something stronger. If not? The motherland always had other children to feed.

it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man.

My heart moved through deep and silent water. No-one, and nothing, could really hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

No-one, and nothing, could hurt me. No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

If you have any ambitions to improve and be a world-class side, you have to be very tough on yourselves.

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.