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.

I know each fund has its supporters, and that some will not want to see the surplus go to schools. But, in tough times, you have to set priorities. And our priority is education.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.