Quotes About Toughness

If my style is too direct for some, maybe they should toughen up a bit.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Sometimes I say the medication is even tougher than the illness.

I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

I've been to a lot of different cities around the world. People in Philly are a lot different... We're raised a little more street-smart. We're raised a little tougher. We're raised to never back down and to hold our ground.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

There's nobody tougher on the players than me. Nobody.

I always felt like I was mentally tougher than the other kids.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.

Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart - or the tougher you are - and at times I thought I was pretty tough - the more trouble you have.

In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher one.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.

I've gotten tougher.

Being in the UFC doesn't mean you're the best. UFC is tough too, but Bellator is tougher.