Quotes About Toughness

Aunt Flo's love is not a soft thing, I think, but something hard and unyielding, which can be good or bad.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

We don't know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.

The world will run you down and slam a tire over your exploding skull and not even wonder what it had just hit.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

This Fura was different. This Fura was harder and scowlier and knew what needed to be done. This one could turn her back on her own dying father, or watch a blinded man whimper in pain and not give one cold cuss. This one could cut her own hand off if it helped. This one didn't care what people thought of Fura. And even as I cursed those tin fingers, which wouldn't yet do a tenth of what I wanted from them, I knew which Fura I liked the best.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Cowboy up, cupcake.

resilience this way: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.

Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

My dad was mixture of John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Errol Flynn all rolled up into one. He was a really tough guy. He taught me how to fight literally when I was four years old. He taught me street-fighting techniques.

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

It's football. You play football. You just play injured. That's how it is. A lot of it comes from my dad. He played for Hayden Fry University in the '80s. He used to tell me about the injuries he played with. One time he tore his ACL in Week 6 and then played in the Rose Bowl in Week 12. So, if he could do that, I can do anything.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

I think I have what a New York City point guard is made of: toughness, a lot of heart, and the ability to be a leader.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

I will say this about Thibs, he's a tough coach if you don't like to be coached or if you don't like to play or do things the right way, then he's tough.

Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.