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Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.
My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.
One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were that grew up there versus, you know, my suburban upbringing. They have this innate resilience and toughness to them, and they're incredibly self-sufficient, usually from a pretty young age.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.
I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.
I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.
A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor.
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness.
We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.
In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.
Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.