There’s very few guys that play for one team their whole careers, nowadays, especially in the cap era it’s a lot tougher.
I like collecting things, much to my wife’s annoyance. I keep mementoes because I’m proud of all the things I’ve done, but also to remind myself, when I’m having a difficult time at home, that there are always tougher, harder things to get through in life.
Y’know, you can sit in a room, practise all day, learn your scales and blaze blues riffs: it’s easy to hide behind that. But I think with the slide, it’s a little bit tougher.
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it’s much tougher to do it on film.
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic – intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements – with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London’s rock n’ roll underground.
But life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.
It’s tough being a dictator, but I’ve always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.
The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
We must find a better way to enforce the Equalities Act, rather than require the injured party to sue a business, and we must, through legislation and legal action, get tougher on those organisations and industries who ignore or, worse still, exploit disabled people.
It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.
Tough times call for tougher decisions.
Even in the best of times, there is no tougher calling than serving as a police officer.
I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I’ve spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I’ve always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
You got to have fun. That’s how I’ve approached each and every day. Obviously, some days have been a little bit tougher than others, but I’ve been trying to have fun.
We’re not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.
I had a lot of racism growing up where I grew up. Bullied at school. It definitely encouraged me. It’s like battle wounds – you come out the other side, and it just makes you tougher.
Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.
I always think the best players come from the areas where there are loads of chimney pots, where they have been brought up a little bit tougher than the others.
Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.
For someone who doesn’t have a family associated with the industry, they obviously find it tougher to get cast in a film, simply because opportunities are taken up by people who are given preference.
The general public perception is that fighting robots were popular, and then went away for a long time, but in reality, there have been live robot combat events happening continuously since 1994. And all the while, the robots have been getting better and meaner and tougher.
Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.
I obviously know how good I was, and people refer to the modern game being tougher.
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
At the World Cup, it’s the very top level. It’s going to be tougher.
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
I’ve gotten used to the point where I’m so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it’s the most difficult thing in the world.
A recreation is not the same as a remix. A recreation has a new element added to it. There are new lyrics added to it. A new composition is introduced within the existing one and I feel that’s tougher to do.
I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.
Of course when you toss a stick of dynamite at a cartoon character, he can come back to life again in the next frame. Getting the same effect with actors is going to be a lot tougher.
When you’re doing a television production, or you’re with a company, there is some stress; there is pressure to perform, and it’s a little tougher, but it also comes with the benefits of having huge television exposure and wrestling in front of a bigger crowd.
Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.
I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.
What makes me laugh is ‘Masterchef,’ with that ridiculous thing they always say, ‘cooking doesn’t get any tougher than this!.’
The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the ‘whole cloth’ of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is ‘tougher than thou.’
There’s a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There’s a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that’s why people like to see me fight.
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that’s tougher than it’s ever been.
I think the first assumption as a coach can’t be that we just have to run harder or do it tougher. You have to understand that everybody is a human being and you have to understand that everybody has things that they’re dealing with.
Sometimes it’s tougher against bad teams because you can’t really get a read on them.
You gain more and more confidence every time you go through tougher situations like traveling alone and sleeping alone.
I think the tougher the challenge the better.
While Democrats, including Barack Obama, mocked the notion that Russia is the greatest threat to our country, nobody has been tougher on Russia and Vladimir Putin than President Donald Trump.
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle – to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can’t be both things.
When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.
Women are much tougher than men in so many ways. I would say, mentally, they are stronger. In terms of physical pressure, they can withstand a lot too.
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
