Tough Quotes

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.

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.

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

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.