Quotes About Toughness

night." "Just some sore muscles. That's all." She shrugged

The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.

I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.

Kevin Muscat scared me. You know, people would say 'I'm going to break your legs' - when he would say it, you genuinely believed him.

Many times players have done stuff to me, like kick me. But I'm not a cry baby.

I've had loads of kicks over the years, and I'm not really too fussed about them. I get kicked, and I don't like to roll around or anything. I like to get back up pretty quickly, even if it hurt.

When you don't have the ball, you need to be a killer, and you need to be tough. If you do have the ball, you need to feel free and to create things and to play with your head.

I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

understanding the glory of being a godly woman and acting with the strength and toughness of a woman who understands she was created in the image of God, forgiven of her sins through the work of Jesus Christ, and gifted and empowered by God's Holy Spirit to live the life God has called her to live.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. —CHRIS EVERT

My lord, like one's cranium, it will endure till broken.

He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment.

Is it going to hurt? You bet. Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner.

I think I was pretty tough as a youngster.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Well, my dad did a lot of Kung Fu when I was growing up, so he taught me a lot about mental toughness. Ways to slow your heart rate down, slow your breathing down to take control of your body so you can push yourself to the next limit.

Every night you go out there, you get hurt. It's really the easiest way to say it. People can describe wrestling however they want to, but your body is flesh and bone, and it's not meant to be slammed on wood and steel.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

Triple H, he's a man's man.

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.