Tough Quotes

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

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

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

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

The outside world can be very tough.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

People think of Jews as the Woody Allen stereotype, the nebbishy kind of thing, but that's not the kind of Jews I know. I know plenty of Israelis and plenty of tough guys that are Jewish. So, I think it makes sense that Jews play metal.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

The comic book world is a tough business.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

I am pretty tough as a boss.

It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

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.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.