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• They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Sorry, Crazy, Fall

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• I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

  Bentley Little

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

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• Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Land, Car, Progress

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 88), 1968.

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• The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Strong, Intelligent, People

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• Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

  Mike Hargrove

  Running, Air, Two

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• When fighting zombies, the only comfort one can have--if, indeed, it can be called a "comfort"--is knowing where the zombies are. "They are over there, and we are over here. When they come at us, we're going to shoot them down. That's how it's going to work. They're just zombies, and they're way over there. No way are we going to f*** this up." But when zombies then unexpectedly pop up behind you--Bam!--the whole battle plan's not so cut and dried, is it, Mr. Tough Guy?

  Scott Kenemore

  Fighting, Cutting, Knowing

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• The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

  Heather Bresch

  Self, Careers, Tough Questions

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• That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.

  Trot Nixon

  Perseverance, Fighting, Tough Times

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• Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

  Alecko Eskandarian

  Running, Morning, Play

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• The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Waiting, Soul

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• The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. Well, anyway, I've got a while yet before you're old enough to understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point... to help get it all straight. Should I tell you about your father? That's a tough one. Will it change your decision to send him here... knowing? But if you don't send Kyle, you could never be. God, you can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I'll tell you... I owe him that. And maybe it'll be enough if you know that in the few hours we had together we loved a lifetime's worth.

  Sarah Connor

  Father, Crazy, Thinking

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• That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

  Sarah Palin

  Believe, Men, Together

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• If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Talking, Actors

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• Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

  Snoop Dogg

  Strong, Believe, Reflection

  "The Evolution of Snoop Dogg: How Keeping It Real And Being A Family Man Remains A Balancing Act For Rapper". Interview with Margena A. Christian for Jet Magazine, March 17, 2008.

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• It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Happiness, Success, Horse

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• I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Nice, Kids

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• It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and tenacity.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Soccer, Football, Character

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• Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Firsts, Cases

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• Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Two, Together

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Jobs, Men

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• I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Baseball, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Games, Want

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• She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Thinking, Arrows

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• I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Beautiful, Jobs, The End Of The Day

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• I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Book, Tough Times, Pay

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