Tough Quotes - Page 29

• Being injured sucks. When you see all your buddies out there playing it's tough.

  Joe Thornton

  Injured, Buddy

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• You had to be tough in our neighborhood.

  Antonio Gates

  Neighborhood

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• It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Country, New York, Boys

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• I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

  Matt Holliday

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

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• I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

  Antonio McDyess

  Play, Focus, Trying

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• I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.

  Chad Pennington

  Football, College, Play

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• It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

  Steven Stamkos

  Games, Careers, Coaching

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• Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

  CC Sabathia

  New York, Winning, Player

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• I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

  Chase Utley

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• I don't think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nation's well-being.

  George McGovern

  Country, Strong, War

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• To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away.

  C.J. Langenhoven

  People, Far Away, Neighbor

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• 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'.

  Kurt Busch

  Sunday, Next Week, Trying

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• The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

  Bill Bright

  People, Tough Times, Ministers

  Bill Bright (2003). “The Journey Home: Finishing with Joy”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Tattoo, Animal, Sharks

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

  Miranda Lambert

  Girl, Tough Girl, Yeah

  "Miranda Lambert's one tough country singer on 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'" by Jimmy Draper, www.sfgate.com. August 23, 2007.

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• I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

  Marian Keyes

  Spiritual, Psychics, Special

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• The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts - because they have to be tough to protect it.

  DMX

  Heart, Guy, Protect

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• I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

  Johnny Miller

  Taken, Swings, Games

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• Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Balance, Want, Figures

  Source: collider.com

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• We have this misconception about women in the military, that they don't wear make-up, but in reality, they're very feminine women. You can be a tough woman, and still be a very nurturing and emotional parent. It's just not always black and white like that.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Military, Black And White, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

  David Hayter

  Guy, Want, Other Guys

  Source: collider.com

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• I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Brave

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.

  Patricia Montandon

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think for Thanksgiving particularly I've always, one of the fun things for me about doing a big dinner is having friends and family so we've always done that, and even through our other holidays like having a mix of friends and family, and if you don't have your family nearby, or it's tough for you, find a friend and go and eat with them.

  Kate Walsh

  Fun, Holiday, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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