Tough Quotes

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

Losing is tough.

Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'

It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.