Quotes about Tough

Our kids played extremely hard and it was a tough loss, but we'll be back next week.

Matt Leng

You want to do so much for the team, but you just can't. You're just sitting in the stands. You can't even be on the bench helping the guys out. It's just tough to watch, but I know the guys are eager to get another chance this weekend. I'm confident that when I'm watching on TV, they'll be playing at the top of their game.

Brian Elliott

Any time you have fatigue you have a greater chance of injury. Last year, our quarterback also was our middle linebacker. That was tough on him. His efficiency on defense went down at times.

Pete Wahlheim

He had a slight ankle sprain. He's a tough kid. I expect him to be back.

Tom Lee

Going through a tough time a lot of people turn to God and Jesus for salvation, ... I feel like football is the salvation the Lord blessed me with to take my mind off a lot of things. It helps me a whole lot when I'm out there. I don't think about anything but football.

Robin Horton

We hold our destiny in our hands. It's just a case of how tough we are mentality. Now it's us against us them.

Jody Bass

This was a good match for Kyle. We knew it was going to be a tough one. Kyle gave up the takedown early but he wrestled tough after that. He's focused. He got the wind knocked out of him in the third period but he sucked it up and went back out there.

Steve Kurzinger

He may have bumped his head on the way out. It's tough to say. I wish I knew.

Jeff Kish

There weren't many tough ones in the first period when I didn't feel that comfortable. In the second and third I found my game, and after that I was hoping they would get even more shots because I felt so comfortable.

Kari Lehtonen

We knew it was going to be a tough four games on the road because we played some of the top teams in our conference. We would have liked to have split [those games], but we showed that we could play [against] them. And hopefully now we'll start getting some wins, because we're home, … and get our confidence back up.

Kadie Riverin

It's tough. It's something, no matter whether you're on a new team or not, you can't put the ball on the ground and think you're going to be successful.

Josh Scobey

That is huge. We had a great week of practice and we needed this game, coming off a couple of tough loses. This shows what we have.

Sgt. Steve Maynard

Being asked what year I am whenever I meet someone and having to tell them I don't go to school can be kind of tough and wear on someone after a while.

Will Morgan

We know that if we come out all guns firing we're definitely the favorites, so we shouldn't have any trouble. But at the same time these guys are tough. We played both of them [last year] at Texas and [at] A&M, and we had 4-3 battles with them. So obviously they're looking to get us. They want to get us at home this time because that's what we did last time, so it's going to be a big weekend.

Somdev Devvarman

We knew it was going to be a tough match, and the Redondo guys thought they were going to win it.

Scott Herman

To go 3-1 in this tournament, we're happy with that. It's a tough tournament every year, and only one team gets to go 4-0 in this tournament.

Derrick Gibson

That was definitely a tough one to swallow after coming back so strong [from a 5-2 deficit]. But you can't really sit back and dwell on it. It was over, so we had to move on, and we came out and played well.

Nigel Dawes

There is a period of adjustment to get used to seeing out of one eye. But he is a very tough guy, not just physically but emotionally, and I'm sure he'll overcome this.

Kevin Dineen

It is true that we play in Europe every now and again and that we have to face matches in the league in between these legs but we are at home and we have to go out and get three points in spite of the fact the rivals are tough and are having a good season.

Juande Ramos

He is a tough kid and hung in there and played well.

Jason Taylor

It was a tough decision, one I didn't really want to make. But I felt it was best for my family. I made peace with it.

Peter Garza

It is on and off with this team. They pick and choose when they want to play. This team (Frankfort) is tough. They beat Kingsley by 20 and Kingsley creamed us, so we did come out and play better. I see so much potential and they don't see it.

Danielle Pettengill

It was an extremely physical game and going in, we knew it would be a tough challenge. (Campbell-Savona) has a nice team with a lot of great athletes. We were definitely not looking past this team.

Matt Hill

It's good to get out of a situation where you pitch a good game and the guys ask, 'Did you miss Barry today? Life goes on without that guy coming to the park. The last five months, we saw him about 20 days. It's tough to answer questions about someone you don't know anything about unless you go on his Web site.

Jason Christiansen

He ran against some very tough horses in the Donn. This was a step in the right direction.

Seth Benzel

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

We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to lose and one had to win and we came out on the wrong end tonight.

Amy Leonard

The judges did a pretty good job of finding the weak points of both sides' arguments. I was a little surprised at how tough the panel was on the government.

John W. Gardner

The kids and the staff are disappointed. We have to learn what it will take to put us over the top and then make the sacrifice to do whatever it takes to get us there. I think we need to learn how to be tough.

Larry Strawoet

When we are willing to move the ball and the bodies, we are tough to defend. We have some people that are really gifted passers.

Chuck Ramsey

Coach Williams has been great for us because he is about intensity. Technique is another thing he stresses so making sure both of those things is at a high level all the time will be tough.

Anthony Spencer

I'm really happy for him. That weight is so tough.

Jon Abernathy

She's a tough little girl. She was back at school (Friday) and she told me she wants to play. Although she's not going to play in our first game of the tournament, we promised her we'd win our first game for her so she can pitch later in the tournament.

Paula Wheeler

It just goes to show you, you really can't get drunk off praise. You go from fighting for a starting job to at the bottom of the [depth chart] again. It's frustrating, it's tough, but I can't really control it. I just had another unfortunate injury and you just have to keep fighting.

Taylor Jacobs

It will be a tough game. But the unity we have is different from last year and the year before.

Tim Reynolds

It was a tough week for the Jets. We didn't show up for either game. We've got to change something. But it's a good group of kids. They'll bounce back. Our league chances might be gone, but our boys won't give up.

Spencer Roecker

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment, ... Sluggish retail advertising and continued declines in automotive reduced the rate of revenue growth in the quarter. But our real estate and employment advertising remained strong both in print and online, with online advertising showing continued strength in all categories.

Gary Pruitt

Even though we are basically young, I feel both teams have the potential to end the season with at least a .500 record. There's a lot of parity among the 12 teams in the conference. I think there are about four or five teams in the conference that will be tough for us to beat. But I feel we will be very competitive during the meets.

Vince Morris

She wrestled tough. It was a long tournament with long time periods between matches. That can cause fatigue for any wrestler. She won the important matches.

Dan Roton

This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.

Tom Dresslar

A.J. was nails. He was tough. He was very good for us and I hope we get that the rest of the season from him.

Todd Blomberg

It was a tough week -- of five matches here I've won three in three sets.

Richard Krajicek

We needed to have a good (meet) after a pretty tough week. This is the time of the year where you have to be free of mistakes.

Rocco Fantazzi

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Ronald Coleman

It's been a tough six months.

James Morgan

Their offense makes you tired, but when you're not mentally tough you don't focus and do the things you have to do to win. We had them on the run. On that third-down play, the safety has to get some depth, get off the hash (mark). That's basic football.

Brady Hoke

I didn't think we were too rusty, we played pretty well. Actually, the break was tough for us, we had a couple of kids sick and injured.

Beth Vesa

With Sean out, other teams can't key on him. When they key on him, it opens up space for whoever else is on the line with him. Alex Miller, obviously, is a heck of a player, but it's tough without the returning first-liner out there.

Len Kiernan

He played very well. He had to go through some tough players to take fourth place.

Dave Lipe

That's one of the hard parts of living in a smaller community. You see these people every day and your kids go to school with their kids and you go to church with them. It's just kind of tough.

Pete Kennedy

The entire senior year until the Super Bowl, that is. We went 10-0 and then lost to Wakefield (13-7) in the Super Bowl. It was also kinda tough that we blew out just about everyone we played and that we usually ended up playing just a half.

Brian Maver

We spotted him that one run. My freakin' terrible throw went to center field. Give a guy like that a one-run cushion when he's got his 'A' game . . . that's tough.

Johnny Estrada

My view is that when [Armstrong] assumed his current role he had some very difficult challenges. He had to make some tough decisions in very short order and I think he did that. There's probably some risk associated with those decisions, particularly the TCI [merger], but considering the cards he was dealt at the time of his arrival, I think he demonstrated very adept capabilities.

Tony Ferrugia

I just want the players to decide the game. It's a tough one because this game was ours. Despite all the turnovers and the missed free throws, we still should have won this game.

Doc Rivers

This year has been like a nightmare. It's been real tough, every start hurts.

Jose Lima

We've taken some positive steps forward since Holiday break, but this evening we took some steps backwards. Our opponents were tough and they took it to us.

Jim Pappas

It was nice to seem them bounce back after a tough loss. Our experience showed. They now know they have to play a lot harder to win. Before we weren't quite sure how to do it.

Dave Hall

Nick hung in there tough with Woodall for the first period but Woodall is a real tough kid.

Gary Haley

I like a 50-50 mix. We have two good running backs and a good passing game. It's tough to stop everything.

Jim Wehner

We expect the first quarter to be a reasonably tough comparison versus last year.

Scott Davis

It's tough to go in there against those guys. We've got to double-team, so that makes it tougher because that's where they got a lot of second chance shots off the offensive rebounds.

Boris Diaw

Romain is a tough out. A lot of guys underestimate him, but you really have to beat him. If he's going to lose, he's going to go down fighting.

Owen Hambrook

They're a tough team and come out hard and play every night. They know how much (Anderson) meant to them, and they step up. They're the same team without him.

Steve Burtt

We're ready for that. If the referees let us play tough, physical play, we are ready to compete and we are ready for every minute of the game.

Lukasz Obrzut

We just dug ourselves a hole and had to fight back all game. And it was tough to dig out of that hole. We came back but just couldn't get over the hump.

Curtis Hines

Different Republicans look at this from different points of view on these two. A lot of Republicans look at Petro and see him as a better manager. But Blackwell has the hard-core conservatives and they are the ones who turn out in primaries. It's a tough choice.

John Becker

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment.

Gary Pruitt

We did not see a lot with Legacy (11 qualifiers) at the Top of the Rockies because they didn't have a full squad. But we know they are tough. Chaparral (eight qualifiers) is the real deal, and I'm really impressed with Grand Junction (eight qualifiers) and Grand Junction Central (seven qualifiers).

Tim Ottmann

What we don't need in a school or a classroom is for a teacher to say, 'These poor black children. They really have it tough,' and not set the bar high enough for them.

Barry Williams

I think preseason is a tough thing to judge teams by, because teams aren't dressing all their top guys. But learning to win under the [NHL's new set of rules and points of emphasis designed to increase offense] is important.

Cory Stillman

I think Jeffers was just overwhelmed by the emotion of the evening. I've been on the other end of that and it isn't much fun. Jeffers is a pretty good team, much better than the score would indicate. If we played like that every night, we'd be pretty tough to beat.

Dick Franti

Treatment takes longer and you don't see the results as fast. It's tough to get federal funds for something whose results appear two to three years later.

John C. Calhoun

Miami is a very tough team, and they're a great rival. You don't really have to say much about a team like Miami. It's a huge rivalry.

Brian Jeroloman

One thing they say about coaching is that losing is your best teaching tool. I've learned through a couple of tough losses. Losing has kind of been a blessing for me.

Jerome Toby

Replacing President Miller is going to be a tough job because she's done so much for this campus.

Ryan Brunner

With consumer confidence remaining weak and price deflation continuing to impact the industry, 2006 looks likely to be another tough year.

Rhys Williams

We're in every ball game, that is what I am proud of. Teams that should be blowing us out aren't. We're prepared and mentally tough and that won't happen. There isn't a better team to coach than this one.

Stacia Rustad

We talked about how Wauconda was a tough loss and how Woodstock was one of the worst games we played. Win or lose against Barrington, we were going to Consolation C, so we just relaxed and had fun. The kids are enjoying themselves.

Dan Debruycker

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Rene Char

He's tough mentally. Persevering and being resilient is nothing new to him.

Bill Musgrave

I'm very proud of the way the team stepped up. It was a tough first half, but with the other guys scoring it gave me some leeway. I didn't have to score. In the second half, I just took the shot and I wasn't thinking about it.

Billy Rush

All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it should have been bigger because it was big hit. It moved the car, and the steering wheel. I had nothing at the end, and I'm sure Scott pushed it just as hard as me. This race was really tough, but it was for the championship and this was a win we really, really wanted.

Max Angelelli

We knew it would be a decent match. Caryl is a tough kid.

Dave Laird

We're in a really tough period, we've got some good teams to play over the next month but it's how we handle the tough period that will determine the result at the back end of the season. We will definitely stick solid as a team.

Ricky Stuart

When you turn the ball over like we did, nothing good is going to happen. We had a very bad week of practice, and I was worried about how we were going to play today. But I didn't expect us to have as tough of a time as we did.

Tom O'connor

Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I'd murdered my family, that'd be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah's defense (of Frey) just doesn't work. You can't say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It's cheating.

Daniel Wallace

It's going to be a thrill for everyone to see him back on the ice. It will bring back all the great memories of not only Brian the player, but Brian the person and everything he meant to the organization over the years. Talking from experience, it will be a tough day, really emotional. It's hard to focus; you have so many emotions running through your body.

Adam Graves

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Dave Barry

Jeff has fullback toughness and tailback speed. He's an outstanding blocker and is a guy who can get the yards when we need them. He really makes us a tough offense to defend because he's a guy opposing defenses have to pay a lot of attention to.

John Andreoli

We tried to think of different clients. Quantities were tough.

Lesleigh Drye

He improved dramatically after the first two practices. He is making small adjustments to make it easier. I am interested in putting this into action and breaking old habits. He is training differently than just diving. It is a little tough to do both.

Keith Hart

I thought we played pretty well. It was a tough match. Lake Gibson played very hard.

Scott Short

It's really tough. I will always think of myself as a Lady Gov. I love it here at Austin Peay, and if I had to do it all over again, I would do it the same way. That's how this program is built, by people staying and believing and sticking with it.

Ashley Haynes

They have been there from the start and it will be really tough to lose the three of them. I know all coaches go through that, but it will be the first time for me.

Kyle Woodcock

As I've said before, this is a tough way for a young team like we have to start the season, but that's the schedule and we have to face it, ... But I think in the long run, it'll make us a better team.

Chris Morgan

We didn't expect a one-point game, but we definitely knew it was going to be tough. A lot of times you can have a game like this and get down on your teammates, start pointing fingers. We stuck together.

Shanice Billington

We are responsible to generate as much cash and shareholder value as possible in the interim, ... We intend to be a tough competitor until the deal closes.

Ralph Hake

Our kids needed this win. We were coming off a tough loss last week and we've had three straight 4-6 seasons. We really needed this one.

Jeff Berry

We know we have to abide by the law, but this is still a tough thing to do. I know it's progress, but it's hard for a small community like ours.

Brandon Hamilton

I think we're doing good; it's a good, solid sale, ... There are a lot of good horses, so if you have less than average of what the stallion is throwing, it's a tough market for those people, but if you have average or above, it's a strong market.

Duncan Taylor