Tough Quotes

"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us."
-Oprah Winfrey

"When you play a competitive game like this, it's going to be a game of runs. We had one early and they came back. We just got out of sync and rhythm offensively. In the third quarter we had some shots we normally make. They didn't go down. They played very good defense and made it tough on us to score."
-Aaron Rosenberg

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
-Madonna

"I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want."
-Madonna

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."
-John Wayne

"Now that he's healthy, I think that plays into how he's playing. He's looking a lot more fit and strong out there. He's really doing well moving up to balls. He's such a good ball-striker, so when he's in (the right) position he's going to be tough."
-Gene Carswell

"When the going gets tough, let the tough get going."
-Frank Leahy

"He's a real good guy. He really is. He has an illness and he's just gotten some tough breaks, it seems like."
-Doug Jolley

"I was so proud of Maggie and Michelle. I coached Michelle the last two years and she has often come back from being down in matches. She's a tough competitor. This is Maggie's first year on varsity and she showed me she won't give up and will continue working the points."
-Joan Dowdle

"After a while, I think we got a hand in his face and cooled him down a little. But he's a great player. It's tough to stop a shooter when he gets hot like that."
-Armon Johnson

"With this team we're cautiously optimistic. It's basically the same team from last year . . . so we're expecting them to do a little bit better than we did last year. But we have a tough road ahead, especially in our district."
-Al Melnick

"It's a tough, tough assignment. This is one he volunteered for."
-Sheriff Darren White

"It is an ongoing battle. You buy software and you buy support, and it only allows so much filtering. It's very tough to find every site. They're so well-disguised."
-Linda Turner

"It's always tough to say, but I think we probably would have been difficult to catch. I knew we had everything we needed to win. It was ours to lose this weekend and we didn't."
-Sebastien Bourdais

"We're doing a lot better than last year. It's real tough competition."
-Ryan Lucas

"She's a very good player. She got some support tonight, which made it tough for us."
-Dave Pero

"The Champions League was the top priority but coming back from two goals down is tough. We threw away our chances of advancing in the first leg."
-Gianluigi Buffon

"We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level."
-Curt Fredrickson

"We have reached a level with our program that we should be in the Top 5 in the nation every year. Our goal is to have an Olympic-level program. We have the talent to be that if our kids are mentally tough, work hard and are disciplined."
-Vladimir Nazlymov

"Lindley has always been good at closing games. He knows how to tighten down in tough situations."
-Andrew Barker

"There are guys in the room that constantly talk, but he's a guy that says specific things at specific times, being as he's our best player. And also to keep us positive in the last little bit, it was kind of a tough go. He was just saying, 'Guys, you're a good team.' If he believes that, we all have to believe that."
-Jason Strudwick

"She's our backbone. When the going gets tough, we know that she's going to be there. She's a big-time goalie. It's as simple as that."
-Bill Mandigo

"The ball tends to sweep into the pins at Augusta. Here, it's always running away from them. This is very tough."
-Padraig Harrington

"I figured that would be a tough game, but we had a good night and she had a good night."
-Jerry Schartner

"It was tough, there was no silver spoon in the mouth. I did a five-year apprenticeship starting at 14. You have to prove yourself. They throw you a bit of meat on the bone and if you handle it you go on."
-Douglas Whyte

"Bowling Green is about on the same level as us right now and have had some close, tough loses this season. This meet will come down to who has the best swim on that day and we are looking forward to a tough meet."
-Brian Vereb

"We kept our composure this time. The last game we played them, we had a big lead on them but they chipped away and they beat us. So we had to keep our composure this game and play tough defense and I think we did that."
-Jacqueline Johannes