Tough Quotes

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington.'

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

I have a tough time judging myself.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.