Quotes About Toughness

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I am becoming very hard on the outside and even softer on the inside.

there's an old slang term in baseball: a dirt dog. Dirt dogs are scrappy. Dirt dogs have been around the block. they are hard working, and a bit rough around the edges. they never give up.

no matter how cold it got in the mountain west, it was colder and damper in the Midwest. Maybe, he thought, it was why they were so damned tough.

Una mano fuerte y callosa, como si

There was a kind of tough that could swim in the cold Pacific, and then there was the kind of tough Frankie was.

Any tips for winning?" she'd asked. "Yeah. Do what you gotta do to survive." "That's it? Wow. You suck at pep talks.

Dallas popped his jaw. "I do not cackle. I bitch like a he-man.

So squeeze together a love of motorcycles, a little edginess and risk taking, a craving for the freedom of the open road, a touch of the loner, a rough sense of humor, some physical and mental toughness along with some multi-faceted motorcycle pride and you have a biker. The more time that biker spends with his machine on the road, the deeper that biker chord runs.

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.

No one turns up at Turf Moor thinking we are a soft touch.

I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.

I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.