Top 100 Tough Guy Quotes
#1. It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"
Remi Aubuchon
#2. My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
Larry Elder
#3. I know with my size, a lot of people might think I'm like a slasher, a make-you-miss guy, which I can do that. But I also like to lower my shoulder and get the tough yards, too. I like contact. I like to mix it up.
Javon Ringer
#4. I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.
Lance Berkman
#5. We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.
David Letterman
#6. Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.
Richard Krajicek
#7. It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything
Kirk McLean
#8. One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.
Jason Statham
#9. Yeah, that went really well. What, I wasn't gentle enough for you? Were you looking for flowers and candles? You don't like to sweat? Are you really a romantic under the tough guy swagger?"
Gabriel straightened. "No, but Oz said that you are."
~Dev/Gabe
Sydney Croft
#10. My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!
Kenneth Fisher
#11. Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.
Doc Brown
#12. In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.
Pavel Datsyuk
#13. It's so pathetic, the tough-guy posturing, but so sinister, because, to put it plainly, that's how black men die. Insecure, pee-pants white men assume that any disagreement is a life-threatening situation.
Lindy West
#14. I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.
Channing Tatum
#15. A common misperception of me is ... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
Sean Bean
#16. Anybody who was in 'The Godfather' is a tough guy.
Peter Dinklage
#17. My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.
Nick Ferguson
#18. And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.
Jonah Goldberg
#19. Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.
Rodney Dangerfield
#20. I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman
#21. I grow up relying upon on my own shoulders even from the moment they were too weak to hold me back, but I knew it is the only to become a tough guy.
M.F. Moonzajer
#22. The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts - because they have to be tough to protect it.
DMX
#23. Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.
Scotty Bowman
#24. From what we know of Paul, he's a pretty tough guy. A man's man, perhaps. But he is moved
Matt Chandler
#25. Screw the daring tough guy image, what happened with us broke me.
Steph Campbell
#26. Parallel tough-guy nods. Man fix boat! Man be strong!
"What now?" I asked, hoping to divert the two from actually beating their chests.
Kathy Reichs
#27. It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.
Guy Forget
#28. My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
John Burnside
#29. To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.
Jamie Foxx
#30. Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room.
Julie Kagawa
#31. Oh for the love of God put a butt plug in the male tough-guy crap.
Larissa Ione
#32. I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.
Scott Adkins
#33. May I never be a tough guy, just a genuine one.
Tom Althouse
#34. My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
Alan King
#35. Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.
Matt Cullen
#36. You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.
Rachael Leigh Cook
#37. 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
#38. Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.
Chad Pennington
#40. If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."
Jim Gaffigan
#41. It's more the way a tough guy who doesn't like cats might look at a kitten and notice for the first time that it can be kind of cute. Sort of a reluctant, private acknowledgment that maybe cats aren't all bad.
Susan Ee
#42. People are surprised that I'm nice and it helps me out a little bit; it's easy to be nice when everyone thinks you're going to be a jerk but if people think you're a nice guy then it's tough because it's what they expect.
Anthony Jeselnik
#43. 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
#44. It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
Michael Moore
#45. You're a tough guy, but I'm a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.
James S.A. Corey
#46. A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.
John McNally
#47. You know, you have everything you want and nobody to share it with, and that's kind of lonely. It was tough for me to admit that. I'm good now though, between this role and the guy, I'm literally the happiest I've ever been.
Danneel Ackles
#48. The only other fight I had in the IHL involved Muskegon tough-guy Chris Kovalcik, who might be the most respectful enforcer I ever met. We lined up for a faceoff, and Kovalcik said to me, 'You're my idol and it would be an honor to fight you. Would you fight me?
Darren McCarty
#49. A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.
Henny Youngman
#50. Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
Michael Bolton
#52. 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
#53. When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.
Emilio Estevez
#54. Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.
Lynne Stewart
#55. He feels a little better while watching the guy on TV or thinking of him. Still, he feels insignificant. He has a few heroes whom he sees on other TV shows: sports figures, a tough cop or a late-night talk show host. He lives vicariously through all of them. Unbeknownst
Anton Szandor LaVey
#56. Out here, due process is a bullet.
John Wayne
#57. I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy.
Trevor Bayne
#58. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
Guy Kawasaki
#59. No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.
Guy Fieri
#60. I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#62. Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
Jimmy Hoffa
#64. The big, strong, tough guy goes to class, and he keeps getting tapped by the skinny, technical guy. It begins to change him. It makes him humble. That's what Jiu Jitsu does to you. It makes you humble.
Relson Gracie
#65. I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy ... I wanna scare people.
Richard Schiff
#66. 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
#67. Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.
Peter Criss
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.
James Marsters
#71. But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
Channing Tatum
#72. I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.
Curtis LeMay
#73. 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
#74. I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.
Mitt Romney
#75. 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
#76. All in all, he looked kind of ... dangerous. Like he could kick somebody's ass, big time, but with style. Like a suave, tough-guy super spy.
Kristin Walker
#77. You know, for a tough guy with a uniform and a gun, you're basically a bunny-loving tree-hugger.
Pamela Clare
#78. The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
Warren Spahn
#79. You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."
"How about I express you out the nearest window?
Greg Cox
#80. This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.
George Papandreou
#81. There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
Gerard Butler
#82. I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
Richard Holbrooke
#83. I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.
Anthony Hopkins
#84. 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
#85. That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.
Tom DeLay
#86. I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than jump shot and rim. I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Don't call me Jump Shot. My name is surprise.
Nikki Grimes
#87. I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
#88. I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
Kirk Douglas
#89. You play tough guy, making jokes to hide the anger you feel in your heart because they were taken from you, the men responsible never found.
Charlie Cochet
#90. When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.
Paul Pierce
#91. Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.
Dave Checketts
#92. I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and contemptuous or the way he walks like a tough guy. Because of his smile - it's a child's smile.
Delphine De Vigan
#93. If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.
Jimmy Iovine
#94. Many people still believe that "tough guy" means having a camel type muscles rather than a lion heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#95. As for whom I would like to fight, I always want to fight a guy coming off a win, because the guys coming off a loss are always very tough. They're fighting for their lives.
Diego Sanchez
#96. For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
Guy Spier
#97. I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.
Tim Hudson
#98. My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
Vin Diesel
#99. A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
Bobby Bowden
#100. I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
Guillermo Del Toro
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