Quotes About Toughness

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

It's a contact sport. At some point, I'll get hit and that's part of it. I'm not worried about it.

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.

I've suffered through the worst possible conditions.

Booing is not going to affect you. It's not the worst thing I will hear. Boo. I've seen and heard worse things.

Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I'm a mudder. Football's just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.

Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.

If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

Obviously I'm not the greatest scorer in the world or the greatest shooter in the world, but I'm tough and rebounding is something that not too many people want to put the effort into doing.

People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.

I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

And a little duct tape on the gunshot wounds will stop the bleeding." "You're not a headlight on an old Chevy," Berg told her.

How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

inuring my body to hardship.

Craig, a basketball star at Princeton who had worked in investment banking before getting into coaching, used to joke that the family didn't think Michelle ("Miche," they called her) would ever get married because she was too tough—no guy could keep up with her. The weird thing was, I liked that about her; how she constantly challenged me and kept me honest.

Diamond. He's bright and shiny and worth a lot. Harder than anything else there is.

Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?

Shit," he grunted. A minute or so passed. Then he sat up and looked at me. He flexed his leg and flashed his indefatigable grin.

A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail. Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!