Quotes About Toughness

Miami Dolphins lineman, wrote in his book On God's Squad, "I guarantee you Christ would be the toughest guy who ever played this game. . . . If he were alive today I would picture a six-foot-six-inch 260-pound defensive tackle who would always make the big plays and would be hard to keep out of the backfield for offensive linemen like myself.

Not bad," she finally said. "At least you left out the oh-my-God sauce this time." "Made myself a batch with it," Shane said. "It's got the biohazard sticker on it in the fridge, so don't bitch if you get flamed. Where'd you pick up the stray?" "Outside. She came to see the room." "You beat her up first, just to make sure she's tough enough?" "Bite me, chilli boy.

I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.

I'm forged hard out of pieces, like a bar of solid steel. There's nothing soft left. I'm too broken to be broken anymore.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. —Anaïs Nin

The soles of her feet were summer-tough, numb to the jagged shells and bits of pinecone.

Teddy wished that his mother were still alive so she could teach her grandkids you had to get hard, strong. The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took.

Kenzie… Me di la vuelta para mirar a Bolton. —Si usted y su socia no son ni civiles ni polis, ¿qué son? Me encogí de hombros. —Un par de idiotas que se creen más duros de lo que realmente son.

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

Not a hothouse flower, this daughter of Leoch, despite her surroundings.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

There are a number of people who can't seem to realize that things could be mighty rough—even rougher than they are now—if there wasn't the slightest bit of deterrence.

Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?

But unless carefully managed and contained, self-criticism can become a form of inner-directed virtue signaling. It projects toughness and ambition, but often leads to rumination and hopelessness instead of productive action.[

Thanks to my training in Balali village, I am rough and tough.

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

Football is a violent sport, and if you don't kind of go to that dark place to be violent and be physical, you're not going to last very long.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

I mean, football is a violent sport.

I'm a violent, physical person.

I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.