Top 199 Toughest Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Toughest Quotes from famous people such as Oleksandr Usyk, Jason Isbell, Imran Tahir, Faith Salie, Kresley Cole, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I do think Briedis will be the toughest opponent I have

I do think Briedis will be the toughest opponent I have faced in my professional career. He is 23-0, he’s a cruiserweight, and he can punch, and that makes anyone dangerous.
Oleksandr Usyk
I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics… I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.
Jason Isbell
I lost my parents, which is the toughest thing to overcome.
Imran Tahir
I’ll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.
Faith Salie
My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I’m never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!
Kresley Cole
The World Cup is the toughest challenge there is. You have seven matches where you have to bring your best and cannot let up at any turn.
Joachim Low
Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.
Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
Floyd can say whatever he wants about me. He knows that I gave him the toughest fight of his life.
Marcos Maidana
I chose to climb Everest because I thought it was the toughest thing to do. In May 2011, I made the decision and by March 2012 I had started training for it.
Arunima Sinha
Frank Mir is gonna be my toughest fight in my UFC career. It won’t be easy.
Mirko Cro Cop
If you know me from my NXT days, you know that I always walk around saying that I’m the strongest and I’m the toughest; that’s in me.
Bianca Belair
The most pressure I’ve ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school – those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.
Gustaf Skarsgard
Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk.
Lewis B. Smedes
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain’s draconian union laws – already among the toughest in Europe – harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Frances O’Grady
That’s the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you’re in it, the more winning becomes, ‘Phew, I’m glad we won,’ and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.
Brad Stevens
For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don’t give up. Never have. Never will.
Jonah Lomu
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali
When you take a step back and look at the totality of Gov. Newsom’s decisions, time and again California found itself under the nation’s toughest lockdowns – while also experiencing the worst COVID-19 rates. Gov. Newsom gave us the worst of both worlds during this pandemic.
Kevin Faulconer
I started as a short filmmaker and found that one of the toughest challenges was getting your film to be watched. I would enter it in competitions and release it online, but getting a mainstream theatre-going audience to view the film is difficult.
Karthik Subbaraj
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with ‘Blood Knot,’ which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
Athol Fugard
One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying ‘no’ to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.
James Gosling
I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.
Adithya Menon
While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination – against men.
Dominic Raab
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others’ work. It’s a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.
Travis Bradberry
All of the great fighters have had losses but are still considered among the greatest ever. The undefeated record is not as important to me as facing the toughest challenges out there.
Mikey Garcia
To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.
Angad Bedi
‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.
Dale Archer
I’m still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
Championships, I get it, it’s very, very important. But I also know that my competitors will probably say that I’m one of the toughest competitors and toughest guys to beat. That’s all I really care about, is having the respect of them.
Denny Hamlin
In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren’t words: grunts, groans, gasps.
Phil LaMarr
I was lucky enough to play against Maradona. He and Ronaldo, when he was at Inter Milan – they were my toughest opponents.
Paolo Maldini
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the w

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That’s how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he’d seen in the East End of London.
Martin Scorsese
It’s the Internet. I’m sure many people know that it’s one of the toughest places to be if you’re sensitive.
Ryan Higa
A lot of people don’t understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I’d been in the playoffs. I’d been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.
Rashard Lewis
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
Eric Clapton
Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women’s tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.
Monica Seles
Well you always have your favourites, and least favourites, I’m generally a cardio person, I love running that’s what I enjoy the most from everything that I do, and swimming is the least favourite and the toughest for me because I’m not so good at it!
Nico Hulkenberg
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
Chris Moneymaker
London 2012 was the toughest time in our relationship but also the best. Things could get fractious – we were both competing for gold – but standing next to my brother on the start line for a home Olympics was so special. I remember saying: ‘Let’s go.’
Alistair Brownlee
I’ll say it’s not easy to keep yourself between 100 and 112 pounds every day of every month of the year. Especially for women. I’m a woman; once a month I retain water and I crave chocolate and sugar. Those are the toughest days.
Chantal Sutherland
Dealing with my first pro loss was the toughest adversity of my career.
Paulie Malignaggi
The toughest situations help you understand your true strength and that’s how it has been for me always.
Shamita Shetty
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.
Mariella Frostrup
Chhichhore’ is the toughest film that I have done.
Tahir Raj Bhasin
Writing for children is the toughest thing.
Sudha Murty
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
Pat Toomey
You’re constantly asking yourself, ‘Am I doing enough? Am I living up to this moment? Am I asking the toughest questions of the president to make sure we’re continuing to do our job to hold him accountable for his words and his promises?’
Kristen Welker
Directing a movie is one of the toughest tasks.
Sudha Kongara
Hedge funds are other hedge funds’ toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it’s tougher and tougher all along.
Julian Robertson
I thought this was the UFC and we’re supposed to be the best and toughest fighters in the world.
Tony Ferguson
I take the toughest challenges and fight against the best women. With that attitude, I will always be doing something big. I’m light-years ahead of my time.
Claressa Shields
One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.
James Brolin
Film is the toughest one for me, as there are many fingers in the pot, so it can be disappointing. However, to have your work seen on such a large scale, that’s a very exciting prospect.
Liz Tuccillo
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.
Frank Bruno
Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.
Nigel Mansell
Comedy is the toughest. If it goes little bit here and there, and your partner doesn’t cover up for you, then everything can go wrong.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.
Riddick Bowe
My dad taught me how to get into clubs and what to look for in clubs, and he always stressed to me that a 3-wood, 4-wood or 5-wood was the toughest club to dial in and if you find a good one to keep it.
Xander Schauffele