Tough Quotes

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

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

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

When Jimmie Johnson goes out early and finishes 35th, as he did Sunday, he can look at the cameras, lament about it being a tough day, and then say, 'We'll just try to get them next week at Darlington.'