Top 424 Tough Quotes

I think Marseille is probably a place like Liverpool, very vibrant and very tough.

I mean he’s a very famous director… they’re not going to put their… and he’s very tough, he doesn’t like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Thanks to my training in Balali village, I am rough and tough.

Maybe I’m just like a child. I’m full of curiosity about things, and it’s fine as long as it’s fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough.

Caring is tough.

Hydration is everything. Think of this: your muscles are 70-plus percent water – how are you not drinking water during a workout? I get the whole, ‘Let’s challenge ourselves; let’s do that prison, tough guy thing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re underperforming.

Coach Skiles is tough. He’s been my only coach in the NBA, so I’m used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can’t fault him for that.

As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.

Growing up, I wish I hadn’t tried so hard to fit in. I’d tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it’s beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It’s tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

I’ve always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living.

Everything I do is like tough love; everything I put out there in the universe is me trying to feed you. I really care.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

My light shines when things get really tough.

You just need to be honest with how you’re feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, ‘Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They’re gonna call me incompetent. I’m going to lose my job. I’ve got to be tough, it’s a man’s world.’

The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You’re not going to avoid tough times. We’re all over the barrel some of the time. What are you going to do about it?

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

In spite of the fact that Russian is very tough, I think that I can find enough strength in myself to learn it.

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you’ve put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I’ve been willing to do it.

It takes a very tough man to play defensive line at any level of football, but to be able to do it on a Division 1 level, or a professional level, it takes that intensity, that aggression, and you have to be tough.

I play very tough tennis, you know.

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.

I embrace everything about Ally… I don’t particularly see her as a whiner. One week she’s tough, the next she’s really weak. I love that. She’s human.

It’s always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It’s a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?

When the going gets tough, I’m not always sure what you do. I’m not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don’t quit. And you don’t fold up. And you don’t go in the other direction.

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

Unless I’ve got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it’s going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

I am a completely self-made person. It’s been a tough journey – I learnt on the job, worked 48 hours without sleeping.

When I hit my thirties, that’s when I calmed down and I wasn’t so tough on myself. I wasn’t doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you’re more accepting of yourself, you’re more free and open and can just allow more people in.

That’s the difficulty with free-kicks, as you get one, maybe two, and that’s why it’s tough. You have to score.

It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV show that punished incompetence, was not just elected for a series of tough policy views.

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

I used to be afraid to use the word ‘pop’ to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there’s some fun.

I grew up in the ’50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, ‘Just bite your tongu;, don’t cause any problems.’ My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

My dad cut my hair once – I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

There’s not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It’s a short list.

I always hoped I’d get a chance to prove myself at the top level because I believed I could do it, but making your way up the football ladder is very tough.

Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.

Don’t be afraid to take the tough jobs. You’ll develop confidence in dealing with tough issues that will serve you for the rest of your career.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

I am a tough guy.

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.’

‘Vikings’ is a very physical, tough show. If you see battle scenes, it’s us doing it. There are so many similar physical elements to WWE.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads – choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.

I am tough. Sometimes I’m unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

It’s a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you’ve paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there’s only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

When I’m on really tough golf courses, I feel like I’m more focused because I’m really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.

I couldn’t deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y’know?

I come from a tough stock.

Playing three games in seven or eight days is very tough.

Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they’re too tough to cry.

In Italy, you must think faster than defenders. It is a tough school.

It was very tough to be patient.

You pay attention to detail. You try to win every time. You play tough. And when you play the right way and be accountable to each other, you’re going to have success and enjoy the game that much more.