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Quotes about Toughness

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.
- James Cleverly
Miami Dolphins lineman, wrote in his book On God's Squad, "I guarantee you Christ would be the toughest guy who ever played this game. . . . If he were alive today I would picture a six-foot-six-inch 260-pound defensive tackle who would always make the big plays and would be hard to keep out of the backfield for offensive linemen like myself.
- Philip Yancey
Thanks to my training in Balali village, I am rough and tough.
- Geeta Phogat
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft
- Theodore Roosevelt
You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.
- Charles Dickens
Be tough minded but tenderhearted.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.
- Cormac McCarthy
Goodness, man, don't be so lachrymose.
- DH Lawrence
I reckon a man in a tight might let Bill Varner patch him up like a mule, but I be damned if the man that'd let Anse Bundren treat him with raw cement aint got more spare legs than I have.
- William Faulkner
Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit...
- Toni Morrison
Kurt Zouma is a strong guy.
- Michail Antonio