Quotes About Toughness

When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush towards you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying, 'Bold ground,' then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

we didn't have any blankets and

Jane looked sweet and fragile as aged lace, but after thirty years of school children she was tough as a marine sergeant.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

I believe in my ability and my mental toughness. I know I can pick up a playbook, like anybody can, and I can compete with anybody.

I don't think any other college coach could have prepared me as well as Coach Bennett, just in terms of mental toughness, being able to grasp concepts and retain information.

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

I can make a good consultant, I can fine-tune bowlers, give them mental toughness, talk about how to bowl under pressure, how to bowl with the old ball.

My dad was raised hard. His own dad's mentality was, 'If you're not dead, you can work. If you're not dead, you're all right.'

There's guys who train hard. There's guys who believe they're real tough. But there's only a certain amount of guys who believe - like, really believe - they should be the champion. I know I have that mentality, and I know other guys who have that mentality.

I am mentally strong.

I was one of the main guys on my team and you always want to check people that you're bringing in. Are they tough enough physically and mentally? Can they respond when you need them to respond?

Coaches like Alan Stubbs were quite hard on me but that helped a lot. It was the best thing that could have happened. It really hardened me up physically and mentally.

I think I have to be stronger mentally.

I've always been good at handling stuff mentally.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

I've always prided myself on being mentally tough, but just because you're mentally tough doesn't mean that what's going on between your ears is always good things.

Believe me, I can be tough, physically and mentally.

Being brought in with Absolution and our mentor, Paige, I think it's really cool, and really full circle since she was our judge on 'Tough Enough,' and she hated me. She was rough with me, but I get it.

You don't mess with Pablo Zabaleta. He is not just looking hard, he is hard.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

Hers was a toughness born from bitterness and tragedy, where every ounce of optimism or humour had been beaten out of her by experience.