Quotes About Toughness

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.

I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

The squared circle's no pretty place to be, and there's nothin' sweet about it.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.

These smokes can take it, they're used to it.

I'm pissed off because of all the fuckin' people who shut their eyes while others are victimized because it doesn't benefit them to get involved. It pissed me off that every-fuckin'-body is such a tough guy until a tough situation is actually present to them. Then they become crying little pussies blaming the world and everything it in.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Developing mental toughness isn't just about being resilient – it's about accessing your reserve tank when you think you just can't go any further.

A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat.

Sylvie considered that children should be toughened up early, the better to take the blows in later life.

We need to slow down for you. You're in pain and you're not going to remind us of that." "It isn't that bad. Really. I--" "See? Gotta be a tough guy." I lowered my voice so the others wouldn't hear. "How's your head?" "I didn't hit my head. Not yet anyway." "You know what I mean. Your headaches." "I'm fine.

You could have stayed with my mom today," I said as Daniel navigated the potholes and ruts. "You've got to be hurting." "Nope. Don't feel a thing." "Tough guy," I said. "No, well-medicated guy.

it's life... In all its granite hardness.

This is a hard place. Only hard things survive here: hard rock, coarse grass, tough sheep, savage birds, sturdy houses and strong men. It is for places like this that the word "bleak" has been invented.

This is the West. We expect things to be tough out here.