Tough Guy Quotes

• Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

  Mike Tyson

  Discipline, Guy, One Day

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• You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Kids, Good Friend, Guy

  "Harvey Weinstein On How 'Bully' Got Its PG-13 Rating". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 16, 2012.

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• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  James Caan

  Baseball, Eye, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fighting, Interesting, Guy

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• I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Guy, Tough, Deals

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• Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heartbroken, Guy, Old Friends

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• Business is tough; you need tough guys.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Guy, Needs, Tough

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• There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kings, Guy, Tough

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• Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

  Terry Crews

  Love, Being Yourself, Badass

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Guy, Mind

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• All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, War, Rain

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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, Tough

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

  Channing Tatum

  Fighting, Guy, Tough

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

  Henry Rollins

  Guy, Trying, Typical

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• We make a living playing basketball. You don't have to be a tough guy or a hard-ass to play this sport. You can be tough but you don't have to have that bravado. Sometimes it's good. But I'm not going to be someone I'm not. It's just me being me.

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Sports, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

  Mr. T

  Football, Play, Guy

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

  Mr. T

  Guy, Predator, Tough

  "Mr T: 20 years on after The A-Team". www.mirror.co.uk. February 1, 2009.

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• There are no tough guys in wrestling.

  Randy Savage

  Wrestling, Guy, Tough

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.

  Matt Cullen

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Guy, Tough, Bigs

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• That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kings, Book, Men

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• I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Rocks, Guy

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• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

  Simon Barnes

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.

  Bubba Watson

  Dad, Philosophy, Nice

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

  Keith Thurman

  Sleep, Knowing, People

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