Tough Quotes

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.

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.