Tough Quotes

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

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.